Illustration: Inside the House of Councillors chamber in Japan’s National Diet Building, councillors occupy curved rows of desks facing the elevated presiding officer’s dais. The imperial throne setting rises behind the central platform, and public galleries overlook the formal chamber.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

参さん議ぎ院いん

sangiin

House of Councillors

The upper house of Japan’s parliament. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 古参議員こさんぎいんたちは、選挙せんきょで参議院さんぎいんの議席ぎせきを失うしないそうになりました。

    The old guard was nearly voted out of the Upper House.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 吉之助よしのすけは貴族院議員きぞくいんぎいん・参議院さんぎいん議員ぎいんとなり法務大臣ほうむだいじんを務つとめる。

    Kichinosuke served as a member of the House of Peers and the House of Councilors, and became the Minister of justice.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 今週こんしゅうは参議院さんぎいん選挙せんきょが開ひらかれる。

    The house of councillors election opens this week.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 参議院

  • 参nonplussed; three (in documents)Onサン・シンKunまいる・まい-・まじわる
  • 議deliberation; consultationOnギ
  • 院Inst.; institutionOnイン

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