In recent years, the Japanese Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation based in Kyoto, Japan holds a poll and chooses a single Kanji character that most symbolizes the passing year. Passed years characters included “New”, “Love” ,”Change”, “War” and “Return” amongst others. The Heisei Era 22 (2010) character is 暑 which means “Hot”, symbolizing the record high temperatures that occurred over [...]