Japan has chosen the character for ‘disaster’ to symbolise 2018.
J apan has chosen the character for ‘disaster’ to symbolise 2018. The public chose the symbol following a series of natural disasters.
In July, 200 people died in floods and millions were evacuated from their homes, and mere days later 65 people died in a heatwave that hospitalised more than 20,000 people.
The country was also hit by an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.
