kanji of the year
One topic dominated conversations in Japan this year, and now it’s officially the most significant single kanji character of the past 12 months.
Some people in Japan are lamenting the fact that another kanji from the top 20 list wasn’t chosen instead.
Because one of Japan’s Asian neighbors had the nation’s eyes looking north again and again this year.
After a year of taxes and a previous year of rings, “safety” is the word that resonates true in the hearts of Japanese in 2015.
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