Japan PM remark fans hope for different surnames for married couples

Hopes are growing in Japan that the country will move toward allowing married couples to use different surnames as Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga recently suggested he remains committed to introducing the option, a departure from current legal requirements.Japan's Civil Code requires married couples to have the same surname, and conventionally, the burden of altering family names has largely fallen on women.The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has recommended a revision to the law, saying it is discriminatory toward women, and surveys in recent years have sho…READ FULL ARTICLE