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2020. 2020 ( twenty twenty) ( MMXX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar, the 20th year of the 3rd millennium, the 20th year of the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2020s decade. The COVID-19 pandemic led to severe global economic and social disruption throughout 2020. [1]
2020 ( MMXX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2020th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 20th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2020s decade. The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and ...
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Announcement
The Japanese government on 1 April 2019 announced the name during a live televised press conference, as Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga traditionally revealed the kanji calligraphy on a board. The Prime Minister Shinzō Abe said that Reiwarepresents "a culture being born and nurtured by people coming together beautifully".
Name selection
A shortlist of names for the new era was drawn up by a nine-member expert panel comprising seven men and two women with the cabinet selecting the final name from the shortlist.The nine experts were: 1. Midori Miyazaki[ja](宮崎緑) – professor at Chiba University of Commerce 2. Itsurō Terada(寺田逸郎) – former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Japan 3. Shinya Yamanaka(山中伸弥) – Nobel prize-winning stem-cell scientist, professor at Kyoto University 4. Mariko Hayashi(林真理子)– screenwriter and novelist 5...
Origin and meaning
The kanji characters for Reiwa are derived from the Man'yōshū, an eighth-century (Nara period) anthology of waka poetry. The kotobagaki (headnote) attached to a group of 32 poems (815–846) in Volume 5 of the collection, composed on the occasion of a poetic gathering to view the plum blossoms, reads as follows:[citation needed] The Japanese Foreign Ministry provided an English-language interpretation of Reiwa as "beautiful harmony", to dispel reports that "Rei"(令) here is translated as "comman...
"Reiwa" marks the first Japanese era name with characters that were taken from Japanese literature instead of classic Chinese literature. Robert Campbell, director-general of National Institute of Japanese Literature in Tokyo, provided an official televised interpretation to NHK, regarding the characters based on the poem,[clarification needed]noti...
Currency
According to the Japan Mint, all coins with the new era name will be released by October 2019. It takes three months to make preparations such as creating molds in order to input text or pictures. The Mint will prioritize creating 100- and 500-yen coins due to their high mintage and circulation, with an anticipated release by the end of July 2019.[needs update]
Technology
Anticipating the coming of the new era, the Unicode Consortium reserved a code point (U+32FF ㋿ SQUARE ERA NAME REIWA) in September 2018 for a new glyph which will combine half-width versions of Reiwa's kanji, 令 and 和, into a single character; similar code points exist for earlier era names, including Shōwa (U+337C ㍼ SQUARE ERA NAME SYOUWA) and Heisei (U+337B ㍻ SQUARE ERA NAME HEISEI) periods. The resulting new version of Unicode, 12.1.0, was released on 7 May 2019. The Microsoft Windowsupdate...
On 19 November 2019, Shinzo Abe became the longest-serving prime minister of Japan and surpassed the previous 2,883-day record of Katsura Tarō. Abe also beat Eisaku Satō's record of 2,798 consecutive days on 23 August 2020.He resigned for health reasons in September 2020 and was succeeded by Yoshihide Suga. In early 2020, Japan began to suffer from...
To convert any Gregorian calendar year since 2019 to Japanese calendaryear in Reiwa era, subtract 2018 from the year in question.
The COVID-19 pandemic, also called the coronavirus pandemic, is a world-wide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). It is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). [1] [7] [b] The disease was first found in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019. On 31 December, Chinese health authorities told the World ...
TOCOG. v. t. e. The 2020 Summer Olympics, [3] officially the Games of the XXXII Olympiad [4] and officially branded as Tokyo 2020, [5] were an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July 2021.
