Japan’s Kanji of the Year 2025 is 熊 (bear). Here’s why it won, what it says about Japan.

Kanji Character Of The Year 2023: The temple's head priest, Seihan Mori, reproduced it with a huge brush on a white washi paper canvas. Japan's word of the year is the kanji character for “tax”- a ...

It has been a taxing year for many in Japan and the character “zei”, which refers to taxes, has been chosen by the public as the kanji character that best represents 2023. Kanji are Chinese characters ...

Japan chose the kanji character for war on Monday as the symbol for 2022 after a year marked by Russia"s invasion of Ukraine and the assassination of former leader Shinzo Abe. The public votes in the ...

Seihan Mori, chief Buddhist priest at Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, writes the Chinese "mitsu", meaning "congested" or "dense", as the character was selected as the single best kanji symbolising the ...

The Chinese character kin (金) has been named the kanji that best symbolizes the year 2016 for Japan. Chinese characters are known as kanji (漢字) in Japan, and the character “金” means “gold”,”wealth” or ...