A study led by Tohoku University (northern Japan) predicts that by the year
2500
all Japanese will have the surname
'Sato'
, currently the most common family name in the Asian country, due to the current trend of demographic decline and the current civil regulations.
By 2531, all Japanese will have the last name 'Sato' (Pixabay).
'Sato' occupies first place among the most frequent surnames among Japanese people and in 2023 it was carried by 1.5% of the Japanese population, according to estimates from a study led by Professor Hiroshi Yoshida, from the Center for Social and Research Research. Economics of Aging from the aforementioned university.
This academic calculates that the number of people with the surname Sato has multiplied by 1.0083 in recent years, and carried out a survey of how this figure would evolve taking into account the demographic trends of accelerated aging and a decrease in the number of births, which are resulting in a continued net loss of population.
In Japan everyone has one name
Their study also takes into account Japanese regulations that establish that when marrying, husband and wife must adopt the same family name, either his or hers. In Japan, only a surname and a given name are used.
From these factors, Yoshida calculates that in the year 2446 half of the Japanese population will have the last name 'Sato' and that by 2531 all Japanese will have the same last name.
In Japan, people only have one name and when getting married the couple can only choose one surname.
The study has been made public in the midst of the continuing debate in Japan about the aforementioned civil regulations on surnames. Many voices, including some from the ruling party, demand that husband and wife
be able to keep their
family names after getting married, or even have two surnames, as in other countries.
The authors of the report sought to "illustrate with numbers the problem posed by the selective separation of surnames in marriages," according to Yoshida when presenting his report.
"If everyone has the last name 'Sato san' ('Don or Mrs. Sato'), there will be no choice but to use only the first name to identify themselves. That would not be an ideal scenario," said the professor, in statements reported by local media.
EFE Agency.
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