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11 Feb 2015
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What is the difference between 状況 and 時局?
Feel free to just provide example sentences.
Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Both mean "situation". But we don't use 時局 most of the time. I looked up that word because I've never used it :P
Japanese
時局 has a connotation of an emergency like when a war threatens to occur. It must have been used on mass media frequently before the WWII.
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