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
Maiden and married names as a woman may want to retain her name among her business contacts or audience. The Civil Code also states that children as the result of the marriage will take the mother's middle name (maiden surname) and the father's surname. To illustrate this, the children of a married couple named "Maria Josefa Lopez Mañego-Luansing" and "Juan Candido Luansing" will take the middle name "Mañego" and the surname "Luansing", so, one daughter with a given name of "Juliana" will be named "Juliana Mañego Luansing". Married women in professional circles (e.g. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Korina Sanchez-Roxas, Vilma Santos-Recto) typically join their maiden and