japan: Japan: ‘Tax’ chosen as word of the year as people grapple with rising cost of living

The Japanese people chose ‘tax’ as the word of the year, reflecting rising costs of living and much-discussed tax reforms in the world’s third-largest economy, CNN reported. The ‘kanji’ — the character — for tax topped an annual poll of more than 1,47,000 respondents by the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation. The head priest of … Read more