Sato will become the only option by 2531, suggests modelling as part of campaign to overturn outdated law requiring spouses to have same surname
A Japanese academic has warned of the potential loss of family and regional heritage unless laws forcing married couples to share the same surname are changed. Everyone could one day be called Sato, he said.A Japanese academic has warned of the potential loss of family and regional heritage unless laws forcing married couples to share the same surname are changed. Everyone could one day be called Sato, he said.
“If everyone becomes Sato, we may have to be addressed by our first names or by numbers,” he said, according to the Mainichi. “I don’t think that would be a good world to live in.”Sato already tops the list of Japanese surnames, accounting for 1.
Couples in Japan have to choose which surname to share when they marry, but in 95% of cases, it is the woman who changes her name. The study contained an alternative scenario extrapolated from a 2022 survey by the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, in which 39.3% of 1,000 employees aged 20 to 59 said they wanted to share a surname even if they had the option of using separate ones.
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