- 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.