Woman sues municipal gov't for refusing to register her baby

Monday 26th January, 02:47 PM JST

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temporaryVisa at 05:14 PM JST - 26th January

Not that long ago SuskiSake3. It dates from 1898, before that Japan used to have one of the highest divorce rates in the world.

It's an absolutely sickening blemish on Japan's human rights situation. Women are regarded as the property of the men who marry them so anything that sprouts up from them belongs to the husband too.

This poor kid will have be disadvantaged from the start, no way for it to claim government benefits, no way to get a passport issued.
Beelzebub at 05:18 PM JST - 26th January

What is really needed in Japan is an anti-stupidity law.
GG2141 at 05:19 PM JST - 26th January

Have these dim-wits in Government never heard of a simple cheek swab DNA test?????

swab -> test -> yes/no

Possibly it is too simple for them to comprehend!!??
tkoind2 at 05:47 PM JST - 26th January

Japan is still living in the middle ages when it comes to this topic. Sadly on many other legal issues as well.
kavikahi at 05:59 PM JST - 26th January

If she suffered financially I say give her some recompense. If not, the government needs to take a close look at this law and revamp accordingly.
Potsu at 06:00 PM JST - 26th January

Wow...what a backward country.
borscht at 06:19 PM JST - 26th January

Just summon the ex husband and ask him if he agrees for the baby to be registered under his name or under the new husband's name.

While logical this still assumes the ex-husband controls what the woman can or cannot do. We already know he's abusive, would he be nice to her now or just continue her pain by refusing to have the baby register with the new husband?

By the way, if a couple divorce and the man re-marries, his new wife can have a baby one millisecond after the marriage is registered and there's no talk that maybe the man isn't the father and that the baby should be registered...uh, where? Nowhere?
kwatt at 07:59 PM JST - 26th January

This civil code was made 100 years ago. I can't believe that Japan still use this. This code should be stopped or invalidated because everything such as way of life, sex life, complicated thoughts, etc has been changed. This very old civil code does not fit today.
space_monkey at 08:09 PM JST - 26th January

maybe they think its not even her baby?!!
TokyoGas at 08:19 PM JST - 26th January

DNA-DNA-DNA

C'mon high tech Japan. Get off the stick.
hoserfella at 09:20 PM JST - 26th January

just another example of a backward people (mostly the fossilized male "leaders") keeping the women folk under their thumb. Not too far removed from the Taliban
GW at 09:43 PM JST - 26th January

Jpn is just so damned primitive sometimes, this is one of those times, the woman shud sue for Y500,000,000 that might speed things along, but alas common sense is seldom seen on these isles
GoingtoJapan at 11:03 PM JST - 26th January

She became pregnant from her former husband? Or someone else? (like her present one).
medievaltimes at 01:20 AM JST - 27th January

DNA.
asiabytes at 03:30 AM JST - 27th January

Typical bureaucrat-think in rural Japan. Boggles the mind.