On Monday, April 1, the Japan government announced the new era, Reiwa. There were some misunderstanding on the meaning of the word. Reiwa does not mean \u201corder and harmony\u201d; it means \u201cbeautiful harmony.\u201d Please see the following information for your reference:<\/p>\n
1. With the abdication of current emperor and accession to the throne by the crown prince, as of April 1, the Japan government has made a decision to change the era and announced Reiwa as the new era.<\/p>\n
2. This new era will be set to begin in Japan, after the accession to the throne by his Majesty the Crown Price on May 1 of this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
3. The word \u201cReiwa\u201dis composed of two kanji characters: \u201crei\u201d meaning \u201cbeautiful\u201d and \u201cwa\u201d meaning \u201charmony.\u201d With this, the meaning behind \u201creiwa\u201d is “Culture will be nurtured as people bring their hearts together in a beautiful manner.”<\/p>\n
4. Furthermore, the name of new era is a first in history. Classical Japanese literature was the source of the name and was a quote from 1,200-year-old compilation of Japan’s Oldest Anthology, Manyoshu.<\/p>\n
Hirotsugu Morishita<\/strong> On Monday, April 1, the Japan government announced the new era, Reiwa. There were some…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[170],"class_list":["post-296811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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