Etymology

shunto

shun·to
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Today it means: The annual wage negotiations, between employers and Japanese labor unions aiming to increase wages, occurring in spring. Full definition →

Japanese 春闘
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from春闘
  2. English todayshunto

Borrowed from Japanese 春闘 (shuntō), literally meaning "spring struggle".

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.