[katana]

All true. But unlike the usual “racist!” epithet Liberals throw out when they feel the ground beneath their arguments give way, I and most if not all of us who are using the term here mean it in a neutral and purely descriptive sense. It’s just how the Japanese are and they’re not inclined or likely to change.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Japanese couples without a male heir will sometimes offer their daughter in marriage to someone who will take the daughter's family name.

Back in the 1950s, our math teacher in Yokohama, Mr. Yajima, was a German national who had served on the Russian front in WW II.

The Japanese who knew him found him perfectly acceptable.