選択せんたく的てき夫婦ふうふ別姓べっせい 立たつ民みん・維新いしん・国民こくみんの各党かくとう提出ていしゅつ法案ほうあん あす審議しんぎ入いり

The bills concerning the selective married couples separate surnames, submitted by the Constitutional Democratic Party, Japan Innovation Party, and Democratic Party for the People, were explained in outline at the House of Representatives Committee on Judicial Affairs on the 30th, and will now enter deliberation.

Regarding the selective married couples separate surnames, the Constitutional Democratic Party and the Democratic Party for the People have each submitted their own bills to introduce the system, while the Japan Innovation Party has submitted a bill to the Diet that does not introduce the system, but instead stipulates that former surnames can be used as common names after marriage.

At a meeting of the House of Representatives Committee on Judicial Affairs on the 29th, ruling and opposition parties discussed how to handle three bills and agreed to hold a committee meeting on the 30th to explain the purpose of each bill and begin deliberations.

In the House of Representatives Committee on Judicial Affairs, it will be the first time in 28 years since 1997 that a bill regarding the selective use of separate surnames for married couples is being deliberated.

On the other hand, at the board members meeting, while the Constitutional Democratic Party proposed to hold a committee meeting and begin questioning on the bill on the 3rd of next month at the beginning of the week, the Liberal Democratic Party did not agree, stating that this is an important issue and that it is necessary to respond carefully while listening to the opinions of each party. As a result, discussions will continue.

The ruling party plans to attend the deliberation of the three opposition parties bills on the selective married surname system without submitting its own bill.

However, with less than a month left until the end of the session and differences in the positions of each party, none of the three bills are likely to pass.

Situation of the ruling and opposition parties: [Ruling party] The ruling party intends to proceed with deliberations on the oppositions bill without submitting its own bill.

The Liberal Democratic Party has both supporters and opponents of the system within the party. On the 28th, at a meeting of the partys working team, they broadly approved a revised proposal of their position, which promotes the expanded use of maiden names as aliases and states that further in-depth discussions will continue.

The Komeito Party is advancing internal discussions from the standpoint of promoting the introduction of the system, and plans to explain the partys position during the deliberations on the opposition partys bill.

The opposition parties submitted their own bills to the House of Representatives.

In the Constitutional Democratic Party’s bill, in order to introduce the system, it is stipulated that if a married couple chooses to have different surnames, they must decide at the time of marriage which surname their child will take.

The bill proposed by the Japan Innovation Party does not introduce a new system, but rather amends the Family Register Act to allow those who wish to have their maiden name recorded in the family register, thereby permitting the continued use of their maiden name as a commonly used name after marriage.

The Democratic Party for the People submitted a bill on the 28th to introduce a system in which, assuming the current family registry system remains, married couples can choose to have different surnames. In this case, when getting married, one spouse would be designated as the head of the family register, and any children would take the same surname as the head.

The Communist Party and Reiwa Shinsengumi are in favor of introducing the system.