Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japan is a profoundly urbanized country, and one of the most densely populated. Its mountainous terrain is most widely known for ...

Tokyo (CNN) — Everyone in Japan could one day have the same surname unless its restrictive marriage laws change, according to a new study. But the country’s dwindling marriage rate could buck that ...

A group of Japanese citizens filed a lawsuit Monday challenging a civil law that effectively stops women from keeping their surnames when they marry.

Sa means "help" or "aid" to means "wisteria" and is a reference to the Fujiwara clan from the Heian Period (see number 31!).