From what I understand, Japan is the only country in East Asia where women change their surnames upon marriage. In the rest of East Asia – mainland China, Koreas, Taiwan, and Vietnam (cultural East Asia), women keep their family name/surnames.
From what I understand, women keep their surnames in East Asia because of the Confucian naming tradition. Thus, is the current Japanese method because Japan removed this Confucian tradition and adopted European naming tradition? Or did Japan never adopt the Confucian naming tradition in the first place?
by Intranetusa