Nippon Ishin Submits Bill to Give Legal Validity to Maiden Names

Tokyo, May 19 (Jiji Press)--Opposition party Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party) on Monday submitted to parliament a bill aimed at giving legal validity to maiden names, as a counterproposal to the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan's bill to introduce a selective dual surname system. With the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which is divided within the party ...

Nippon Ishin Submits Bill to Give Legal Validity to Maiden Names
Tokyo, May 19 (Jiji Press)--Opposition party Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party) on Monday submitted to parliament a bill aimed at giving legal validity to maiden names, as a counterproposal to the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan's bill to introduce a selective dual surname system. With the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which is divided within the party ...