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Vocabulary (12)

• 新相撲

  しんすもう

  "new" sumo (for women) conducted on a mat, wearing leotards instead of a mawashi

• 年齢相応

  ねんれいそうおう

  (appropriate for) one's age

• 相違点

  そういてん

  (points of) difference

• 観相術

  かんそうじゅつ

  (the art of) physiognomy

• 相合袴

  あいあいばかま

  Aiaibakama (noh farce)

• 相沢事件

  あいざわじけん

  Aizawa incident (assassination of Major General Tetsuzan Nagata by Lieutenant Colonel Saburo Aizawa; August 12, 1935)

• 黒衣の宰相

  こくいのさいしょう

  Buddhist priest who is also an important politician

• 閣内相

  かくないしょう

  Cabinet ministers

• 第一相銀

  だいいちそうぎん

  Daiichi Sougin (former bank)

• 外相

  がいしょう

  Foreign Minister

• 内相

  ないしょう

  Home Minister (pre-1947)

• 法相宗

  ほうそうしゅう

  Hosso sect of Buddhism (Japanese equivalent of the Chinese Faxiang sect)