Dictionary / Vocabulary / 更迭
こうてつ
change (of personnel); reshuffle (e.g. of a cabinet); shake-up; dismissal (e.g. of a minister)
common word Also written 交迭
田中前外相の更迭に続く政治混乱がその象徴である。
The dismissal of foreign minister Tanaka is symbolic of the continuing political turmoil.