A Japanese economics professor asserts that if a law requiring spouses to have the same surname isn’t changed, every Japanese person will have a surname of “Sato” by 2531. (Hunch: this needs some factchecking.)
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The presentation is deliberately a little goofy, but surname collapse is a legitimate phenomenon — maybe the easiest example you could point to would be Korea, where there are basically like five different surnames at this point.
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