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熊 is Kanji of the year (www.nippon.com)

submitted 1 week ago by emb@lemmy.world to c/japaneselanguage@sopuli.xyz

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Apparently the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation decides one of these every year.

This year, 熊 (kuma) was selected, meaning bear. For whatever reason, Japan has had a bunch of bear issues lately.

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[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A mixture of urbanization and climate change pushes bears into human habitats. At the same time, it's a nation of retirees with 60-somethings hiking or farming plots in bear habitats, and thus becoming fodder themselves. And at the same time still they cannot come up with good legislation and a ranger service that can regulate the population of bears by shooting them if they have to without falling fowl of the strict gun laws. It's a clusterfuck.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's positively unbearable

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

Try to bear with me anyway.