Wedding party is routed through the Meiji magazine shrine in Tokyo? Bride on traditional white wedding kimono. Through Getty Images  The eyes of the Japanese Supreme Court are ubiquitous / ordinary image group (Japan's Supreme Court) to maintain the 19th-century law, forcing couples to share the same surname
 15 judges of Japan's Supreme Court The bench dismissed the petitions of the three Tokyo couples, asked them to be allowed to keep their last name, even after marriage, they can keep their last name.
Japan is based on the Japanese Ministry of Justice, the only country in the world with such rules in its civil code, which makes the couple must choose a last name in marriage. The Civil Code of Meiji-Times was written in 1898. Based on a female Japanese tradition, she married her family.  This task has led to an overwhelming 96% of Japanese women who use husband's last name after marriage in a study in Japan. 2016 Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry. In principle, the husband can use only 4% of the married men to choose this in 2019 according to the number of the Japanese gender equality.
In the case of 2018, the three couples applied for these three couples refused to submit the marriage registration of different surnames in the local government office, which would maintain independent surname violates their constitutional rights. However, Japan's Supreme Court ruled couples after three years of process? Adhere to the authorization contained in the country's home registration system, D pointed out that this matter should debate in the Japanese Parliament.  NHK Japan talked about a plaintiff, Aya Takahashi, he told her that she felt "broken".
Takahashi's husband  Takahashi husband Hiroshi Mizusawa said he hopes that his child grows up in a world they have a proxy agency.
This unsuccessful legal challenge is the latest attempt to challenge the Japanese challenge law. The 2015 lawsuit of the government's 2015 in the government has also failed. At that time, Kaori Oguni and four women sued the Japanese government, seeking about $ 50,000 damages, because the name of the husband must be taken.  
This year's Kyodo public opinion has shown a change in the period, and the law is a thing that is coming back. Above 60% of the 18 and more than 3,000 people, the people surveyed by the news organization said that the couple should be able to separate the surname.