Komeito chief wants to persuade Japan PM to enable dual surname use

Japan's junior coalition partner chief said Wednesday he wants to persuade Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to move toward allowing married couples to use different surnames, a change opposed by conservatives in his ruling party.Tetsuo Saito, who leads the Komeito party, told a radio program that both men and women are "troubled" by the traditional system of requiring married couples to use the same family name. "The time has come to make a decision," he said.Komeito is calling for changing the current single family name system, with the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and other oppos…READ FULL ARTICLE