The kanji "kita" meaning north has been selected as the Chinese character best describing this year's social atmosphere in Japan, amid heightened nuclear and missile threats posed by North Korea, a Kyoto-based kanji promotion organization said Tuesday.Chief Buddhist priest Seihan Mori of the Kiyomizu Temple wrote the character 1.5 meters in length and 1.3 meters in width with a giant calligraphy brush on "washi," or Japanese paper, in the annual year-end event at the famous temple in Kyoto where the kanji of the year was announced.North Korea continued to demonstrate its intention to pursue…READ FULL ARTICLE