The character for bear, or “kuma,” has been selected as kanji of the year for 2025, after a surge in bear sightings and attacks.

The kanji was written with a giant calligraphy brush on a roughly 1.5 meters high and 1.3 meters wide sheet of "washi," traditional Japanese handmade paper, by chief Buddhist priest Seihan Mori of the ...

The kanji for “bear” (熊, kuma) was chosen as the single most representative character symbolic of the social mood in Japan this year, the Kyoto-based Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation said ...

Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co. has announced the results of its annual popular baby names survey, revealing ranking of names ...

A file picture taken on December 12 shows Seihan Mori, the chief priest of Kyoto's famous Kiyomizu temple, displaying his caligraphy of a kanji (or Chinese character), "Kizuna" meaning "bond", which ...

One of the most intimidating things about learning Japanese is the writing system. There are three different sets of characters you’ll need to become proficient in, and while two of them, hiragana and ...

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 ...

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 ...