The kanji "sai" meaning "disaster" was picked as the Chinese character best describing this year's social mood in Japan, amid a string of natural and man-made calamities, a Kyoto-based kanji promotion organization said Wednesday.Chief Buddhist priest Seihan Mori of the Kiyomizu Temple wrote the character 1.5 meters in length and 1.3 meters in width with a giant calligraphy brush on "washi," or Japanese paper, in the annual year-end event at the temple in Kyoto where the kanji of the year was announced.The selection came as Japan was buffeted this year by torrential rains in western Japan an…READ FULL ARTICLE