Law requiring couples to share one surname hinders women in the workplace and lowers birth rate, campaigners claim ...

TOKYO -- "I felt it was wrong to force my spouse to do something that I myself would hate," Iori Warita, 30, told lawmakers ...

A man who acquired Japanese nationality two years ago has reflected on the Japanese system requiring married Japanese couples ...

Japan is the only country in the world that legally requires married couples to share the same family name — and that creates ...

Rob McElhenney has filed legal documents to change his name. The actor reportedly signed the docs Thursday requesting that ...

A British couple has gone viral for playing a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors at their wedding to decide whose surname they ...

But while it is common in many countries for couples to take a single surname after marriage, in Japan it is a legal requirement. The law, dating from Japan's Meiji era, which ended in 1912, does ...