相そう銀ぎん

noun

mutual savings bank

Abbreviation of 相互銀行 (そうごぎんこう). Refers to a type of Japanese financial institution that was converted into ordinary banks in the late 1980s; now a historical term.

See also: 相互銀行 (そうごぎんこう)

• 相そう銀ぎんは1989年ねん以い降こう、普ふ通つう銀ぎん行こうに転てん換かんされた。

  Mutual savings banks were converted into ordinary banks after 1989.