[Opinion] Democratic Party for the People supports decision-making on children's surnames upon marriage, but is cautious about cooperation with the Constitutional Democratic Party: Asahi Shimbun

On the 23rd, the Gender Equality Promotion Headquarters of the Democratic Party for the People agreed on a policy to aim for the early introduction of a selective system of separate surnames for married couples. With regard to the timing of deciding the "child's surname," there were many voices in support of setting it as "at the time of marriage," as proposed by the Constitutional Democratic Party, but...

On the 23rd, the Democratic Party for the People held a meeting of its Gender Equality Promotion Headquarters and confirmed its intention to gather opinions within the party on the issue of married couples' surnames, centering on the proposal to allow couples to choose different surnames upon marriage. The proposal advocated by Chairman Yuichiro Tamaki to give legal effect to maiden names taken before marriage will not be adopted...