The dawn of a new era, signifying auspiciousness and harmony, sums up Japan’s hopes in turbulent times.
By Simon Denyer Simon Denyer Tokyo bureau chief covering Japan, North Korea and South Korea. Email Bio Follow April 1 at 3:42 AM TOKYO — Japan announced “Reiwa,” two characters that symbolize auspiciousness and harmony, as the name for a new era under a new emperor.
Although many people use Western dates to think about international events, older people especially still use the Japanese system to think about domestic events and their own lives. Many of the poems in the Man’yoshu reflect the varieties of seasons and nature, and the poem in which the characters are used refers to plum blossoms in the spring.
The name of an era, or gengo, represents the zeitgeist of a period, just as the Roaring ’20s and Swinging ’60s encapsulated different decades in the United States, and the British remember the Victorian Age as a time of colonial expansion abroad and Protestant morality at home. But the 30-year Heisei era itself will be remembered less fondly — it began with the bursting of Japan’s real estate bubble and was marked by decades of economic stagnation, when Japan was outpaced by its much larger rival China.It also was marked by political corruption scandals and natural disasters, notably the 1995 Kobe earthquake and the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, as well as growing concerns about the effects of globalization.
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