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officer

On-Yomi: リ

Koohii stories:

1) [ayoung24] 5-10-2006(325): One officer can change the course of history.

2) [mhheie] 24-3-2008(95): One officer, namely Napoleon, changed the course of history. (Thanks, ayoung24). Napoleon is also my primitive meaning.

3) [synewave] 1-7-2007(37): In a police state, the police officers all speak with one mouth and have a gun tucked under their arm.

4) [kanjihito] 3-7-2011(26): This is not military officer (#1095 尉), but more of a government officer, official or bureaucrat, such as Barack Obama, who started out as a lowly government officer (communitee organizer) and the broke through the glass ceiling to become president of the United States and make history (I know a glass ceiling generally refers to an obstacle for women, but I wanted to avoid key words such as woman (#98 女), lady (#1151 婦) or feminine/female (#563 雌)).

5) [onsen_monkey] 3-10-2006(20): I used HISTORY as a primitive rather than separating it into 'mouth' and 'tucked under the arm'. Think about the Japanese history textbook controversy. The government OFFICERS choosing the textbooks are the ONE elite group determining Japan's HISTORY.

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