Public feel 'sense of crisis' and politicians debate changing rules as Emperor has no male children and only three heirs ...

Every person in Japan will have the same surname by 2351 thanks to an antiquated law dating back to the 1800s, an expert has warned. Academic Hiroshi Yoshida, a professor of economy at Tohoku ...

Members of Japan’s Diet are revising the law, declared unconstitutional, that allows transgender people to change their legal ...

Sato will become the only option by 2531, suggests modelling as part of campaign to overturn outdated law requiring spouses to have same surname Japanese citizens will all have the same family ...

President Biden also referred to Russia and China, saying they “don’t want immigrants.” A spokesman said the president was ...

Change to civil code will bring Japan into line with other G7 countries, amid concerns existing law inflicts psychological harm on children Divorced couples in Japan will for the first time be ...

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 ...

Japan, the only Group of Seven (G7) nation that does not have legal protection for same-sex unions, had originally pledged to pass the law before hosting a G7 summit last month.

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Diplomacy is a series of crises, and the navigational beacon for a nation is international law. This book is a collection of articles on ...

Currently, it is banned from appointing non-Japanese directors. The revised law, which passed the House of Representatives, the lower chamber, earlier this month, will enable NTT and its two ...

According to the research, the proportion of Japanese named Sato increased 1.0083 times from 2022 to 2023. If that rate remains constant - with no change to the law - half of the Japanese ...