{"id":51128,"date":"2022-12-14T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T03:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/14\/japan-chooses-war-as-kanji-of-the-year-amid-ukraine-conflict-and-abe-assassination"},"modified":"2022-12-14T12:45:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T03:45:15","slug":"japan-chooses-war-as-kanji-of-the-year-amid-ukraine-conflict-and-abe-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51128","title":{"rendered":"Japan chooses \u2018war\u2019 as kanji of the year amid Ukraine conflict and Abe assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The character, chosen by public vote, reflected feelings about the state of the world and anxiety over living cost pressures<\/p>\n<p>People in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> have chosen the kanji character for \u201cwar\u201d as the symbol that sums up 2022 \u2013 a year marked by conflict in Ukraine and the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe.<\/p>\n<p>The character, chosen in a public vote, reflected Japanese sentiment about the state of the world, as well as heightened anxiety over the weak yen and high cost of living, according to the annual contest\u2019s organisers, the Japan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/jun\/05\/japanese-children-unko-kanji-doriru-professor-poo\">Kanji<\/a> Aptitude Testing Foundation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/14\/japan-chooses-war-as-kanji-of-the-year-amid-ukraine-conflict-and-abe-assassination\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The character, chosen by public vote, reflected feelings about the state of the world and anxiety over living cost pressuresPeople in Japan have chosen the kanji character for \u201cwar\u201d as the symbol that sums up 2022 \u2013 a year marked by conflict in Ukraine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,1758],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-language"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51129,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51128\/revisions\/51129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}