首相

Meaning

1. n
   prime minister; chancellor (Germany, Austria, etc.); premier

Example sentences

• 最大限に首相という権力を利用し、自己の保身の為に利用するキツネのようにずる賢い首相に見えてくる。

  He has come to look like a sly-as-a-fox Premier who uses his position's powers to the fullest extent, to his own advantage.

• 政府が今国会への改正案提出の見送り方針を固めたことを歓迎する一方、小泉首相が提出断念を明言していない点を警戒する声も上がった。

  While welcoming the firming up of the present government policy to abandon the proposal of the reform bill to the Diet, at the same time some are worried that Prime Minister Koizumi won't clearly state the bill's withdrawal.

• 小泉首相が「憲法違反だから靖国神社参拝しちゃいかんという人がいます」と語った。

  Prime Minister Koizumi said, "There are people who say that, because it's unconstitutional, I should not pray at the Yasukuni Shrine".