Patent Office to be first gov't agency to permit use of maiden names

I find it funny how the single surname law completely falls apart when it comes to international marriages. If your law becomes unenforceable the minute someone marries a foreign spouse, it's probably time to scrap the law for everyone.

Yes, but international marriages don't count. We are merely an addendum on the family register.

I find it funny how the single surname law completely falls apart when it comes to international marriages.

Foreigners' names are not in Japan's jurisdiction.

Great idea. Maybe they should patent it.

Won't this lead to the dreaded "confusion"?

tax dodging will be be more difficult for some.

In Yamaguchi prefecture, firstborn daughter becomes househead and her husband will be adopted and they marry when time comes. Example:Nobusuke Kish from Satoh family. Kish family adopted Abe's brother Nobuo.