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A white cross and heart on red.
Also known as: Help mark Japan
A badge worn in Japan by people with an invisible disability or condition, signalling that they may need help.
Signals that the wearer may need assistance or consideration.
Contexts: Public information
Was introduced by the Tokyo metropolitan government in 2012 and adopted as a national JIS symbol in 2017, which is an unusually well-documented path from a local initiative to a national standard.
Contexts: Public information
Covers conditions the wearer would otherwise have to disclose one at a time — a prosthesis, a heart condition, a developmental disability, an early pregnancy — and deliberately says nothing about which, so the badge asks for help without asking for an explanation.
Contexts: Public information
An upright rounded rectangle in a solid tone carrying a plain cross above a heart, both in a contrasting tone.
The narrower internal-disability badge it overlaps.