KANJI of the year (Continuation)

I write about KANJI of the year 2001's to 2004's...
It's a last time about it!!!! (I'll write it next year!)

2001「戦」
It means war,battle,fighting...
Of course,there was 11th September terrorist attacks.
It was very big incident,you know.
And,we had fightinf for economic distress...



2001「帰」
It means come back,get back,return...
There was a big reason.
Some Japanese came back Japan from North Korea.
They had been kidnapping by North Korea long long time.
Actually,there were many other Japanese kidnapping there and still can't come back yet.
Ummm...It's very serious ploblem...

2002「虎」
It means tiger...
I guess you think why tiger...?
Actually,HANSHIN TIGERS got league titlle. It has been 18 years!!
HANSHIN TIGERS is Japanese pro baseball team.
There are a lot of fans in mainly KANSAI area.
Some of them are addicted sometimes. It's famous...
And,there are some Japanese common expression use Tiger.

2004「災」
It means bale,disaster,harm...
Wow! Last year was so bad...
Because,there was a big eathquake in Nigata prefecture.
10 typoon struck in Japan. Some of them were very big.
It was the gratest number typoon coming.
And,there were ibad ncident which hostage were killed in Iraq etc...

That's all for KANJI of the year for past 10 years.
What do you think??

Have a nice day!!
SEE YA!!