Interesting. Japan's never been a country that people would hold up as an example for gender equality, but women have always been "permitted" to own property--

Interesting. Japan's never been a country that people would hold up as an example for gender equality, but women have always been "permitted" to own property---"permitted" as in: they never had that right taken away from them, and thus never had to fight to have it (in contrast to both China and the West).