TOKYO, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) — The Chinese character or kanji “zei,” which suggests tax, was chosen as kanji of the 12 months that greatest summarizes the 12 months’s nationwide temper in Japan, a Kyoto-based group introduced Tuesday.
According to the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Association, the kanji for tax was chosen due to tax hikes and cuts being closely lined in news and mentioned amongst policymakers, with many feeling anxious in regards to the rising costs of fuel and on a regular basis items.
On the day, the kanji character was written with an enormous calligraphy brush on a roughly 1.5-meter-high, 1.3-meter-wide sheet of Japanese washi paper by chief Buddhist priest Seihan Mori of the famend Kiyomizu-dera Temple in Kyoto.
The twenty ninth annual choice was based mostly on votes solid by most people. It was the second time the kanji for tax has been chosen as kanji of the 12 months following 2014.
The kanji-of-the-year choice occasion has been held yearly since 1995.