JapanLingo

対策たいさく

taisaku

countermeasure

N3

How to remember this word

Tie 対策 to one concrete moment from your own week in Japan where “countermeasure” came up — a word anchored to a real scene sticks far better than a definition.

Example sentences

Example 1

misu o fusegu taisaku o kangaemashou.

Let us think of measures to prevent mistakes.

Example 2

onaji misu ga okinai you ni, taisaku o kimete okimashita.

To keep the same mistake from happening, we decided on countermeasures in advance.