回天

回天
かいてん【回天】
1 〔天下の大勢を一変させること, 盛り返すこと〕

回天の事業 moving heaven and earth 《to salvage an enterprise》; a Herculean [stupendous, tremendous] attempt; prodigious [superhuman] efforts.

2 〔旧日本軍の人間魚雷〕 a Kaiten, a manned suicide torpedo used by the Japanese navy in the Second World War.

Japanese-English dictionary. 2013.

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