Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s this very line of thinking that permeates a debate raging right now in Japan, where an archaic law dating back to the 1890s ...

Women's rights advocates in Japan have struggled for decades for the right of married couples to have different last names. Japan is the only country where they're required to use one surname, which ...

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.