It’s essentially always been that way in Japan. Even in the Heian era a thousand years ago, the great families like the Fujiwara and the Taira whose daughters married into the imperial family were still officially commoners. In fact, it was the highest mark of political power for a courtier’s daughter to marry an…

It has to do perhaps with the Japanese household system. (Or it is relevant). It is a patrichial household where adult option when there is a lack of male heirs. So it had perhaps depend on whether she enters her husband’s household or her husband enters her father’s household (his nobility making him viable to be…

Did no one notice that Luigi and Mario were also in attendance?