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The ruling Liberal Democratic Party has barred Seiichiro Murakami, a former Cabinet minister, from taking official party posts as punishment for calling slain former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a “traitor” to Japan.
Members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party discuss the issue of revising the current system requiring married couples to use the same surname at a meeting at the party headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 15. (Yuichi Nobira)
Efforts to inch toward a system that would allow married couples to use separate surnames suffered a huge setback after die-hard opponents in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party staged a last-ditch offensive.
The government’s draft Basic Vision for Formulating the Fifth Basic Plan for Gender Equality states that it will “proceed with necessary steps” concerning “a system in which couples can use surnames from before marriage.”