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32 自民党 Liberal Democratic Party

Alternative Meanings

LDP

Part of Speech

Noun

Reading

じみんとう

  • Kyoko(Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi(Tokyo accent, male)

Context Sentence

我らが自民党が今年は熱いな。もう誰も我々のことを「愚民党」なんて呼ぶことはないだろう。

Our Liberal Democratic Party is hot stuff this year. Nobody would call us the Loopy Democratic Party anymore.

Meaning Explanation

The individual peoples party is the political group that believes in each individual of the people (or something?). The translation doesn't really get hinted at in this meaning, but this group is the Liberal Democratic Party, aka the LDP.

Reading Explanation

This is a jukugo word that uses the on'yomi readings of the kanji. You should be able to read this on your own.

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