Looking through my Dad's books while on vacation in Nagano I came across 'Japanese Things' by Basil Hall Chamberlain, first published in 1890. It is an A to Z of all things Japanese, written by a British Japanologist who taught Japanese at the then Tokyo Imperial University (now Tokyo University).
Thinking about my current predicament, a step away from becoming a Japanese citizen,
I wondered if he had written on this subject from the perspective of 1890.
The only reference to this topic was a short paragraph under the topic 'Adoption'.
Read the paragraph beginning "Until quite recently".
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