Married couples in Japan must keep using the same surname after the country’s supreme court ruled that a century-old law is constitutional.
The decision is a blow to women’s rights campaigners who argue the requirement for married couples to use the same name violates their constitutional right to equality.
The ruling throws the fight over married names back to Japan’s parliament, where Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s enthusiasm for putting women in the workforce is much greater than his appetite for human rights or social reform.
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