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Originally Posted by Matrim
Political marriages to seal alliances aren't exactly common in the 20th century, you know. Surely, an extremely traditional minded Japanese family wouldn't marry some Italian girl into its ranks just because Italy was ally of Japan? Not to mention an ally who couldn't really help with anything substantial due to the great distance between the two country.
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Then do you have a better theory why an extremely traditional minded Japanese family would have a daughter called Kyrie?
Japanese family does practice this often, just like Kinzo was still forced into marrying a woman to reap benefits for the family even he did not love, and it was in 20th century. We also had the example of Eva trying to arrange a marriage for George. To seal an alliance? Not exactly. It was a means to expand the family network into Europe, to gain trade opportunity and information. Conversely, I would say that because of this marriage, Japanese had successfully made the Tripartite pact (signed in 1940, and to make the Axis alliance probably many diplomacy work had been going for quite a few years, 1952 Beatrice was married into Sumadera family well before 1940) with Italy and Germany.