That resistance remains, however, with Yoichi Shimada, an academic who won a seat for the far-right Conservative Party in the October election, emphasising his opposition. "Japan has always followed ...
The ruling party’s move to roll back progress toward ... to require married couples to use the same surname. Of all Japanese married couples, 96 percent use the husband's surname.
The push to allow married women to retain their maiden ... The Democratic Party for the People, the Japanese Communist Party, and even centrist members of the LDP and its political partner Komeito ...
A small but increasingly influential Japanese opposition party decided Wednesday to suspend its leader, Yuichiro Tamaki, for three months following a media report about an extramarital affair. Tamaki ...
Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has confirmed that an internal working group will resume discussions on changing the law to allow women to retain their maiden name after marriage ...