Kizuna

Kizuna (絆) is a Japanese word meaning "bond". It may also refer to:

• "Kizuna" (Aya Matsuura song)
• "Kizuna" (Aya Ueto song)
• "Kizuna" (Orange Range song)
• "Kizuna," a song from the anime Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch
• "Kizuna," a song off Seishun Amigo by Kazuya Kamenashi
• "Kizuna," a song by Ayane
• "Kizuna," a piece of music from the anime Fairy Tail
• Kizuna, an Action RPG for Wii developed by Jaleco
• Kizuna, a 1998 Japanese film directed by Kichitaro Negishi
• Kizuna: Bonds of Love, a yaoi manga
• Kizuna Encounter, a fighting game for the Neo Geo
• Gekijōban Naruto Shippūden: Kizuna, the fifth Naruto movie (second in the Shippūden series)
• An alternative name for the WINDS spacecraft
• Kizuna, Japanese political party formed by nine former Lower House members of the Democratic Party of Japan.

The word was chosen to be 2011's "Kanji of the Year" ([1]).