Vocabulary

是正 is correcting something that has gone officially wrong — rectifying an unfair practice, fixing a violation. 修正 fixes a document; 是正 fixes an injustice.

Tie 糾弾 to one concrete moment from your own week in Japan where “denunciation” came up — a word anchored to a real scene sticks far better than a definition.

Picture the last situation where you needed the idea of “impeachment” — at work, at the station, online — and attach 弾劾 to that exact scene.

When you meet 罷免 in real text, pause on it once — meeting “dismissal (from office)” in the wild a single time beats ten flashcard passes.

更迭 is replacing someone in a post, usually after trouble — the minister was 更迭された. The chair stays; the person changes.

左遷 is the demotion transfer — moved sideways-and-down, away from the center of things. The opposite career arc from 抜擢.

抜擢 is being plucked from the crowd for a big role — the bold promotion that skips the queue. 若手を抜擢する makes headlines inside a company.

登用 is bringing talent up into responsible positions as policy — systematic promotion, where 抜擢 is the dramatic single pick.

起用 is choosing someone for a specific role or job — a director casting an actor, a coach fielding a player, a client appointing a firm.

招聘 is respectfully inviting an expert in — a university calling a professor, a company courting a specialist. An invitation written with both hands, so to speak.