{"id":68281,"date":"2024-12-13T13:02:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T04:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/13\/japan-kanji-of-the-year-gold-olympics-ldp-scandal"},"modified":"2024-12-13T13:02:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T04:02:45","slug":"japan-chooses-gold-as-kanji-of-the-year-in-nod-to-olympics-glory-and-slush-fund-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68281","title":{"rendered":"Japan chooses \u2018gold\u2019 as kanji of the year in nod to Olympics glory \u2013 and slush fund politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The character, chosen by public vote, has won in previous Olympic years but also reflects public anger at a damaging financial scandal inside the ruling Liberal Democratic party<\/p>\n<p>The kanji character <em>kin<\/em> \u2013 which can mean gold or money \u2013 has been chosen as Japan\u2019s word of the year to reflect the country\u2019s medal sweep at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/olympic-games-2024\">Paris Olympics<\/a> and a damaging financial scandal inside the ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>The single character, which can also be read as <em>kane<\/em> (money), was unveiled this week at Kiyomizu-dera, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, whose head priest, Seihan Mori, reproduced it with a huge brush on a white washi paper canvas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/13\/japan-kanji-of-the-year-gold-olympics-ldp-scandal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The character, chosen by public vote, has won in previous Olympic years but also reflects public anger at a damaging financial scandal inside the ruling Liberal Democratic partyThe kanji character kin \u2013 which can mean gold or money \u2013 has been chosen as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4511,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68281","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\/4511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68282,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68281\/revisions\/68282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}