By RIKAKO TAKAI/ Staff Writer
December 14, 2020 at 18:03 JST
"Mitsu," the kanji of the year, is revealed in Kyoto’s Higashiyama Ward on Dec. 14. (Pool)
KYOTO--Japan has chosen “mitsu" as the kanji of the year, widely cited as part of a social distancing slogan, in a fitting acknowledgement of how the pandemic has held the public at its mercy in 2020. [Read More]
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