Married couple court case appealed by 2 courts and rejected Tokyo High Court February 26 19:13
The family register law, which does not allow married couples to choose a different family name when they get married, violates the Constitution. And sentenced him to dismiss the complaint.
Four people, including Yoshihisa Aono (48), who runs the Tokyo software development company "Cybozu", can choose a married couple's surname when a Japanese marries a foreigner under the Family Registration Law, but they can choose between Japanese marriages. There was no claim that the country would violate the constitution that stipulates equality under the law, and demanded 2.2 million yen in compensation for the country.
Judge Hideki Ogawa of the Tokyo High Court ruled in the court's decision on the 26th that, as in the case of the first instance, the rule of the Family Register Act did not violate the constitution, and said, "How to determine the married couple's surname is It should be discussed in the Diet, including the state of society's perception of the system and surnames. "
President Aono, who held a meeting after the judgment, said, "It is a very disappointing result that the contents of the judgment of the first trial have not changed and it is a very disappointing result. I want to go. "