• aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Currently, couples can choose which surname to take. And a lot of pressure has been building for the right to have different surnames on the same family register.

    (And thanks to gaijin like me, new surnames are being introduced into Japanese lineage all the time.)

    Riddle me this, Professor: With the native birthrate at an all-time low, and the influx of foreign residents at an all-time high, how long until 50% of Japanese surnames are written in katakana?