The Supreme Court decided to dismiss the appeal in a trial in which the president of an IT company in Tokyo sued the country, saying that the provisions of the Family Register Act, which does not allow marriage with a married couple's surname, violates the Constitution, and the president's defeat is confirmed. did.
On the 23rd of this month, the Supreme Court ruled that the provisions of the Civil Code and the Family Register Act do not violate the Constitution, and have subsequently rejected other complaints.
Four people, including Yoshihisa Aono, president of Cybozu, Inc., a software development company in Tokyo, said that the Family Register Act, which does not allow marriages between married couples with different surnames, violates the Constitution that stipulates freedom of marriage. We asked the government for a total of 2.2 million yen in compensation.
President Aono insisted that "there is a big disadvantage in work, such as not being able to use the maiden name in the name of the stock or in the contract," but the first and second trials said, "It is disadvantageous because the use of the maiden name is socially widespread. Will be relaxed to a certain extent, "and decided not to violate the Constitution, and dismissed the complaint.
Four people had appealed to this, but Judge Katsuyuki Kizawa of the First Small Court of the Supreme Court decided to dismiss by the 28th, and the four people were confirmed to be defeated.
On the 23rd of this month, the Supreme Court ruled in an en banc decision on another trial that the provisions of the Civil Code and the Family Register Act did not violate the Constitution, and subsequently dismissed other complaints one after another.