Lifestyle | 2008 MEDIA ROUND-UP Dec 28, 2008
Making sense of the strange changes of 2008
by Michael Hoffman
Every year, the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation selects a "kanji of the year." This year's is "hen," meaning "change" or, equally, "strange, peculiar." It will be a long time before the world stops reeling from the strange changes of 2008. They are in large part ...