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143 Japanese females are measured for the study of the body form. The stature is 149.06cm, the sitting height 81.61cm, the length of trunk 46.04cm, the thorax is 26.55cm long at right, 23.40cm wide and 11.75cm thick, its girth 77.64cm at the height of mesosternale, the biacromial width 33.67cm, the abdominal girth 65.54cm, the cristal breadth of pelvis 26.89cm, its fore spinal width 23.03cm, its external diagonal diameter 20.51cm, the lumbar girth 75.54cm, the bitrochanter breadth 29.34cm, the femoral girth 42.78cm and the leggirth 31.26cm. When compared our females with those of Baba, Takakusu, Honda and Abe, which have almost the same statures, there is a little difference between them. Compared with those of Abe our females are a little more slender, with those of Baba ours are of shorter trunk with a little thick thorax, with those of Takakusu a little more thick with a longer thorax and less flat pelvis, with those of Honda all the breadths are a little smaller with slender lower extremity.
When the pelvic portions are compared with other authors about the Japanese female the following differences are observed. In comparison with ours those of Gotanda and of Masuno are each a little longer with more thickness, those of Okuwaki a little less thick, those of Suzuki a little smaller in all.
When the body form of our Japanese female compared with that of the Japanese male of Tanaka, except stature there are following sexual differences. The sitting height and breadths of trunk in relation to stature are larger by the female, while the length of trunk smaller. The girth of the femur and leg are also comparatibly larger.
As for the thoracal region, the upper part has a smaller, the lower on the contrary larger relative girth by the female compared with the male, as for the pelvic part the relative measurements are always large with more diverging wing by the former.
As for the correlation between thorax and pelvis, there is an intimate positive correlation in the sagittal diameter, while in the breadth not.

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