Japan is the only nation where married couples must use the same surname. Critics say it violates women's rights and, unless the rule is scrapped, all Japanese could be surnamed Sato in 500 years.

Japan is the only country in the world that legally requires married couples to share the same family name — and that creates considerable problems for scientists, according to a survey of more than 7 ...

JAPAN’S big business lobby urged the government to allow married couples to have separate surnames, saying current laws that effectively force married women to go by their husbands’ names for some ...

The controversial Ukrainian-born winner of the Miss Japan beauty pageant has given up her crown after a magazine exposed her affair with a married man. Karolina Shiino, 26, wrote on Instagram Monday ...

Under Japanese law it's long been illegal for spouses to use different surnames. In fact, it's the only country in the world that still enforces such a rule for its citizens. But now there are growing ...

Karolina Shiino, the Ukrainian-born Japanese model has given up her Miss Japan crown and title and people are wondering why. They also want to know more about her affair with a married doctor and its ...

Japan’s big business lobby has urged the government to allow married couples to have separate surnames, saying current laws that effectively force married women to go by their husbands’ names for some ...

After graduating from college, Obora Shizue, now in her 40s, was building a solid career at an insurance firm. But after giving birth to her first child she became a full-time mother. “I wanted to ...

BRUSSELS--A U.N. committee that seeks to outlaw all forms of discrimination against women called on Japan to allow selective surnames for married couples. The Committee on the Elimination of ...