黄こう禍か

noun

Yellow Peril

Historical and political term for the alleged threat to Western civilization posed by East Asians. Often used in discussions of early 20th-century racism and propaganda.

• 黄こう禍か論ろんは、20世せい紀き初しょ頭とうに欧おう米べいで広ひろまった人じん種しゅ差さ別べつ的てきな考かんがえ方かただ。

  The Yellow Peril theory is a racist idea that spread in the West in the early 20th century.

noun

harm from train toilet waste

Obsolete colloquial term for the environmental harm caused by dumping human waste from train toilets onto the track. Now only of historical interest.

• 昔むかしの列れっ車しゃでは、トイレの汚お物ぶつを線せん路ろに捨すてていたため、黄こう禍かと呼よばれる問もん題だいがあった。

  On old trains, human waste was dumped from toilets onto the track, causing a problem called 'yellow harm'.