Oh. So that's probably (sorta) what that was. At the end of the 70's I was in the Navy and living within walking distance of Japan for a year or so. Occasionally you see a young Japanese woman (as I recall) wearing a shirt with an English word or two written on it. The words never made any kind of sense to me. It was as though they were there just because it was English, not because it meant anything. This always makes me wonder when I see someone in the West wearing a shirt with a Kanji symbol on it. Does it mean anything or is it just a pretty piece of art which happens to also be a symbol in an Eastern language?