>>555171
>Aren't Koreans and Japs with ainu blood still considered to be subhumans in polite society?
Koreans or Zainichi to be more specific are for sure considered subhuman, or at least of a lower class of civilisation; as for the Ainu, despite being called Barbarians during the Edo period, they're largely irrelevant in modern Japanese society and usually ignored as a group. However leftist and vice-reading faggots circle jerk around them
>Or how did it work in Machuria, Formosa and Korea?
Japanese citizens could marry Taiwanese (Japanese subject) citizens, but the latter would not be recognised as part of the Japanese citizen's family. During the Imperial years, Japan stuck with a policy of assimilation (both cultural and racial) within their sphere of influence. If anything, it was an irl case of Turning Japanese.
>If I understand correctly peasants could breed with whomever they wanted to, but people from good families were expected to breed with people from other good families.
Regarding marriage, the Edo period saw certain restrictions for marriage according to caste, especially if you were a samurai or a merchant with a clan, business, and name to pass on, but aside from that you were free to marry anyone around and below your class (except for the Buraku).
There were mainly three ways people married in the Edo period
>Strategic Arranged Marriages
Much like the arranged marriages of the European nobility; usually for upper class samurai and rigidly enforced
>Arranged Marriages
Mid to low class samurai, merchants, and landowners would arrange marriages for their children; there were also instances where someone was chosen to marry into the family should they not have heirs
>usual marriage
Same to what we have today; everyone else would marry as they please. However, it should be noted that Japan, before the Meiji restoration, was very loose regarding sexuality compared to the west; read up on Yobai (night crawling) for more info regarding this
By the Meiji restoration, the caste system was removed, and everyone including the Buraku were given equal rights; however this was only in legality, so the old caste system stuck as a social guideline; good families (wealthy merchants, noble families, and political clans) would stick within their class, while the rest married accordingly; mostly within the same class. The buraku would, again, be shunned from polite society.
In post-war Japan, most of the populace is now entirely middle-class so there isn't too much caste discrimination. However, recent events regarding Princess Mako and her fiancee Komuro Kei, and his family's shady past (being in debt, his mother being in a cult, etc) shows that there is more than some interest in family backgrounds and ancestry. Wealth is also important in marriage today.
tl;dr
>the edo period laid down a caste system, which was then barred in the meiji period but used as a guideline on marriages
>Japan's marriage and romance affairs were born in the Meiji period
>buraku are literally subhuman
>>555472
>Wait a sec, so you're telling me you actually have jap ancestry and not some white guy who lives there for some reason?
aye brother, half Jap
>What defines as 'good' here hungray anon? Their genes? Their ancestry? Their whole personality? Their wealth?
In the past, it was your ancestry and caste that mattered. Today it's your wealth and ancestry, especially if your ancestry involves religious nuts, then you're shunned.
>>555171
>free pass to racism
I especially enjoy making fun of actual nigger happas :^)
sage for being off-topic