ABSTRACT
In 1967, the popular Japanese term for minor stoppages was choko choko tomari (literally, sputter, sputter, stop). Recently, this has been shortened to chokotei (sputter-stop). In English, there are such expressions as idling and minor stoppages, small line stops, intermittent stops, starts and stops, and so on. The standard term in either language is still a matter of debate. In this book, the term minor stoppages is used to avoid introducing a new term, which would only add to the confusion.
