Japan's civil war over surnames

日本围绕姓氏的内战

Inventive schemes help women dodge inflexible marriage laws

巧妙的变通帮助女性规避僵化的婚姻法

Jun 26th 2025 | Tokyo

2025年6月26日 | 东京

FOR A COUPLE that has divorced three times, Uchiyama Yukari and Koike Yukio get along remarkably well. The two teachers, who live in the city of Nagano in central Japan, have never fallen out of love. Yet they have parted several times on paper, in order to sidestep a law that requires married people to have the same surname. Most of the time the couple lives happily outside wedlock. Each time they have a child they remarry (because that makes registering the birth simpler) and then divorce again.

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