Mr. Duckworth beat me to it: the kanji character picked to symbolize Japan in 2004 was "災" - disaster. See: there are 20,900 Japanese pessimists out there.
Posted by marxy at December 14, 2004 11:10 PMstill waiting for nick to chime in on this one...are you out there?
Posted by: r. at December 22, 2004 5:55 PM