世代交代

• 読み: せだいこうたい
• ローマ字: sedai kōtai
• 漢字の分解: 世 (se/yo) — generation; 代 (dai/yo) — era, generation, substitute; 交 (kō/ma) — interchange, crossing; 代 (tai/ka) — alternation, exchange
• 発音: /se.da.i.koː.ta.i/

意味

Generational change; changing of the guard; the replacement of one generation by the next in leadership or culture.

Used across politics, business, sports, and culture to describe the process by which younger people take over roles previously held by an older generation. Can be natural and gradual or forced and abrupt. Often carries a nuance of renewal or transition in Japanese organisational contexts where seniority (年功序列) traditionally delays such change.

例文

1. 球団は若手選手への世代交代を急ピッチで進めている。
2. 政界でも世代交代の必要性を訴える声が高まっている。
3. 世代交代がうまくいかずに迷走する企業も少なくない。

使い方ガイド

場面: sports, politics, business, society

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

Compound of 世代 (generation) and 交代 (change, alternation, taking turns). The phrase draws on the biological metaphor of one generation handing off to the next, applied broadly to social and organisational contexts.

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal