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by hsn915 1781 days ago
It's probably inconceivable from a Western perspective.

Samo Burja has an interesting clip where he talks about the succession problem, and briefly mentions the Japanese practice of adopting someone by getting them to marry your daughter. He also talks about how this would not work in modern day America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGPjhrV4G9c (last two minutes talks about Japan)