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Demographics Professor Warns that by 2531, Everyone in Japan Will be Named Sato (www.spoon-tamago.com)

submitted 7 months ago by BrikoX to c/interestingshare

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Despite today's date, this is not an April Fool's prank. At a press conference in Tokyo last weekend, professor Hiroshi Yoshida from the Tohoku University Research Center for Aged Economy and Society, sounded the alarm bell for a looming crisis. By the year 2531, e

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

law that mandates married couples share the same surname.

Japan’s outdated law that prohibits separate surnames.

ahh now it makes sense