KYOTO--Japan has chosen “mitsu" as the kanji of the year, widely cited as part of a social distancing slogan, in a fitting acknowledgement of how the pandemic has held the public at its mercy in ...

KYOTO -- The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation announced ... wrote the character of the year on a large board at the temple in the city's Higashiyama Ward the same day.

Head priest of Kyoto temple wields massive brush to write 2024's kanji of the year: 'gold' ...

KYOTO--Fittingly and not surprisingly, "kin," or gold, was selected as the kanji most capturing the mood of 2021, the year Tokyo hosted the Summer Olympics for the second time. In what has ...