Women in Japan period to 100 days and allows any woman who is not pregnant during the divorce to remarry immediately after divorce. The Civil Code of Japan requires legally married spouses to have the same surname. Although the law is gender-neutral, meaning that either spouse is allowed to change his/her name to that of the other spouse, Japanese women have traditionally adopt their husband’s family name and 96% of women continue to do so as of 2015. In 2015, the Japanese Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the law, noting that women could use their maiden names informally, and stating that it
Surname had chosen as the family name, when this option was available for women. "Losonci Rose and Rose v. Switzerland" challenged a prohibition on foreign men married to Swiss women keeping their surname if this option was provided in their national law, an option available to women. "Ünal Tekeli v. Turkey" challenged prohibitions on women using their surname as the family name, an option only available to men. The Court found all these laws to be in violation of the Convention. Only a fraction of surnames in English-speaking countries around the world come from Britain. English speakers' surnames come from all