Word: kizokuin
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Presently, as the State Coach clattered into Parliament Square and drew up, Emperor Hirohito stepped nimbly down, as though nothing had happened, and was received by members of the Kizokuin (House of Peers) and the Shugiin (Commons), standing at stiff attention in the open air. Soon, beneath the vault of Heaven, the Son of Heaven pronounced in high, piercing, rapid syllables the traditional Four Sentences, opening Parliament...
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