The kanji "rei" has been picked as the Chinese character best describing this year's social mood in Japan after the new imperial era Reiwa commenced in May, a Kyoto-based academic organization said Thursday.Chief Buddhist priest Seihan Mori of the Kiyomizu-dera temple in Kyoto wrote the character on a paper 1.5 meters in length and 1.3 meters in width with a giant calligraphy brush in making the announcement at the 25th annual year-end event organized by the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation. In modern Japan, era names, or gengo, are used for the length of an emperor's reign. Reiwa i…READ FULL ARTICLE