{"id":101872,"date":"2023-12-14T14:59:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T14:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/?p=101872"},"modified":"2023-12-14T14:59:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T14:59:56","slug":"tax-trumps-hot-in-japans-annual-word-of-the-year-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/world-news\/tax-trumps-hot-in-japans-annual-word-of-the-year-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"&apos;Tax&apos; trumps &apos;hot&apos; in Japan&apos;s annual word of the year vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Some like it &#8216;sho&#8217;, but &#8216;zei&#8217; is deemed Japan&#8217;s word of the year: &#8216;Tax&#8217; trumps &#8216;hot&#8217; in annual vote&#8230; as nation tries to cut taxpayer burdens amid record spending<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Japan voted for the word for &#8216;tax&#8217; as this year&#8217;s word of the year<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Japan&#8217;s government has cut taxes in a bid to reduce pressure on families<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><b>Second-highest was the word for &#8216;hot&#8217;, amid rising temperatures\u00a0in the country\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Japan has voted the word for &#8216;tax&#8217; as its word of the year, as the government is trying to cut down on citizens&#8217; financial burdens despite spending a record amount of money.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The character for the word tax, &#8216;zei&#8217;, was masterfully inscribed on a 21 sq ft piece of paper by a skilled calligrapher at the annual ceremony held by the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The artisan,\u00a0Seihan Mori, chief priest of Kiyomizu-dera, the Kyoto temple where the ceremony was held, said: &#8216;The selection of tax reminded me of financial challenges facing Japan. How taxes are spent is under intense public scrutiny. I hope taxes are used to serve people&#8217;s wellbeing.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s government, led by 66-year-old prime minister Fumio Kishida, revealed tax cuts that aim to stimulate consumption and relieve pressure on families facing rising inflation\u00a0rates and food prices.<\/p>\n<p>But it has also promised to double defence spending over the next five years to roughly\u00a0<span>10 trillion yen (\u00a355 billion).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/14\/14\/78961825-12864295-image-a-61_1702564106684.jpg\" height=\"525\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The character for the word tax, &#8216;zei&#8217;, was masterfully inscribed on a 21 sq ft piece of paper by a skilled calligrapher (pictured)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/14\/14\/78961851-12864295-image-a-62_1702564109268.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>In 2018,\u00a0Seihan Mori wrote the word for &#8216;disaster&#8217; on the 21 sq ft piece of paper<\/p>\n<p><span>It is the second time that taxation was chosen as word of the year. The first time was in 2014, when sales tax rose from 5% to 8%.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While roughly 148,000 votes were cast in the annual poll, zei won with less than 6,000 votes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The runner-up word was sho, meaning hot, and lost by less than 400 votes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Japan has experienced record temperatures this year, which has affected the country&#8217;s ecosystem that bears have refused to hibernate in the winter due to the unseasonably warm climate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sen, meaning war, took third place, amid wars between and Hamas, Ukraine and Russia and rising tensions between China and the rest of Asia.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sen took first place last year, after Russia invaded Ukraine and the nation&#8217;s former prime minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated by a man using an improvised weapon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lower down the list were the Japanese words for &#8216;tiger&#8217;, &#8216;victory&#8217; and &#8216;ball&#8217;, all referring to the Hanshin Tigers of Osaka, which won its first baseball league in 38 years this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also in the top ten words was zo\/masu, meaning &#8216;increase&#8217;, referring to rising inflation and food price rates that have plagued the country this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12864295\/Some-like-sho-zei-deemed-Japans-word-year-Tax-trumps-hot-annual-vote-nation-tries-cut-taxpayer-burdens-amid-record-spending.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some like it &#8216;sho&#8217;, but &#8216;zei&#8217; 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