{"id":60512,"date":"2023-12-13T13:46:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T04:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/13\/japan-kanji-word-of-the-year-tax-cost-of-living"},"modified":"2023-12-13T13:46:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T04:46:40","slug":"japan-chooses-tax-as-kanji-of-the-year-amid-concern-over-cost-of-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60512","title":{"rendered":"Japan chooses \u2018tax\u2019 as kanji of the year amid concern over cost of living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Competition winner reflects growing anxiety about tax rises, while second place for word of the year went to \u2018hot\u2019 after a sweltering summer<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/jun\/05\/japanese-children-unko-kanji-doriru-professor-poo\">kanji<\/a> character for \u201ctax\u201d has been chosen as Japan\u2019s word of the year, in a reflection of growing public anxiety over the cost of living and impending tax rises.<\/p>\n<p>The single character \u2013 which can be read as <em>zei<\/em> or <em>mitsugi<\/em> \u2013 was unveiled this week at Kiyomizu Buddhist temple in Kyoto, whose head priest, Seihan Mori, reproduced it with a huge brush on a white <em>washi<\/em> paper canvas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/13\/japan-kanji-word-of-the-year-tax-cost-of-living\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Competition winner reflects growing anxiety about tax rises, while second place for word of the year went to \u2018hot\u2019 after a sweltering summerThe kanji character for \u201ctax\u201d has been chosen as Japan\u2019s word of the year, in a reflection of growing public anx&#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":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60512","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=60512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60513,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60512\/revisions\/60513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}