"Sen," the kanji for war or battle, was chosen by the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation to represent 2022. The foundation's 28th annual poll collected votes cast by the general public to ...

To celebrate the release of "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle," a special voting campaign was launched in partnership with the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation and Kitano Tenmangu ...

Kyoto, Dec. 12 (Jiji Press)--"Kuma," meaning bear, was picked Friday as the kanji character of the year in Japan, amid a series of wild bear attacks across the country. It was the first time ...

Famously one of life’s only two certainties, “tax” has been chosen by the Japanese public as its word of the year, reflecting rising costs of living and much-discussed tax reforms in the world’s third ...