失脚

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 失脚 is a noun read しっきゃく, meaning a fall from power or the loss of a high position. It forms the verb 失脚する.
• Basic usage: It can describe a minister falling from power after misconduct is revealed or a story tracing a powerful figure's downfall.
  • 不正が明らかになり大臣は失脚した。 says that the minister fell from power when misconduct was revealed; 物語は権力者が失脚するまでを描いている。 says that the story depicts events through the powerful figure's fall from power.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• 不正が明らかになり
  • The revelation of misconduct is presented as leading to the minister's fall from power.
• 失脚するまで
  • まで marks the fall from power as the endpoint of the period depicted by the story.
• 失脚 and 辞任
  • 失脚 is being displaced from power or influence, while 辞任 is resigning from an office.