The Asian nation is the only country in the world that requires spouses to share the same last name.
Already a subscriber?Everyone in Japan could have the surname “Sato” in about 500 years unless the law is changed that forces married couples to share a last name, a study has found. “Sato”, meaning assistant or helper, is now the most common surname in Japan, according to Hiroshi Yoshida of Tohoku University.More than 1.5 per cent of Japanese people held the name last year, and calculations show that the proportion increased 1.0083 times from 2022 to last year.
That is, unless Japan adopts a selective surname policy and abolishes the current civil code implemented in the 1800s. “Considering that a family name has a family history and is also a cultural symbol, its loss would mean that the history of the family name would also cease to exist,” Professor Yoshida toldJapan’s surname policy has come under increasing scrutiny of late, and most people favour a selective policy.
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