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On the 15th, actress Yuina Kuroshima (29) appeared on Nippon TV’s “Osharete Clip” and once again confirmed that she and actor Hio Miyazawa (32) have had their first child together, and that the two remain in a common-law marriage without ever having officially registered it. Ever since she announced her pregnancy in January 2024, she had already signaled she wouldn’t register the marriage, but now that she’s actually explained her reasoning, reactions poured in on 5ch’s Geino/Supo-soku+ board. Theories flew back and forth — maybe she doesn’t want to change her surname, maybe it’s to dodge the hassle of paperwork if they ever divorce, maybe it reflects a mindset that puts personal identity first — and there were also a lot of posts correcting each other on where Miyazawa’s family actually comes from.
Yuina Kuroshima, in a common-law marriage with — and now a new mother thanks to — a popular actor: the public reacts with “So it really is a common-law marriage” — even her own mother was stunned, asking “Why?!” — she reveals on TV why they haven’t registered the marriage
Actress Yuina Kuroshima (29) appeared on Nippon TV’s “Osharete Clip” on the 15th, where she spoke about giving birth and about marriage.
On January 16, 2024, Kuroshima announced that she was pregnant with her first child with actor Hio Miyazawa (32), and that the two would not be registering their marriage.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Changing your name on your credit cards and everything is such a pain.
especially if the other person goes and marries someone else later.
Not really
you just draw up a contract on how to raise the kid before it's even born.
His dad just sings an Okinawan song ("Shima Uta"/"Island Song")
I don't think the Miyazawa family is actually rooted in Okinawa.
Hio Miyazawa has nothing to do with Okinawa
his dad's from Yamanashi Prefecture.
His dad's from Yamanashi, his mom's from Kanagawa and half American
Hio himself was born in the US and raised in Tokyo, so he's a quarter-American.
She said they both wanted to keep the surnames they grew up with.
Doesn't really feel like that's the real reason, lol.
So the kid gets double power with two surnames then
they probably won't even let the kid choose
both and neither at once — guess the kid's generation gets to sort that one out.
what else would it be?
her grandpa or grandma was telling her to hurry up and find someone to marry.
Try putting yourself in the kid's shoes, whose whole life is getting tossed around like it's some casual snack decision…
Since they're not actually married.
he gets to stay legally unaccountable
and once he's bored he can move straight on to the next one.
Wonder what the kid will think about it once they're grown.
are they even living together?
Not an expert, but since the child wasn't born within a legal marriage, it'd be an acknowledged "illegitimate child" (hichakushutsushi)
basically treated the same as a mistress's kid.
I heard he's actually from Yamanashi but was seriously bothered by the fact that "Shima Uta" became such a huge hit.
Apparently Okinawan locals were initially confused, even a bit annoyed, since tourists kept going on and on about "THE BOOM's Shima Uta" while ignoring the many traditional island songs that already existed there
though these days it's been fully embraced.
Isn't it more of an ideological thing?
A mindset that puts personal identity above everything else
though honestly, if the My Number system were just properly digitized, this whole thing would be a non-issue, lol.
If she doesn't want to change her name,
why not just go with the separate-surnames-for-married-couples system everyone's talking about these days?
The fact that they're not even doing that suggests there's some other reason they don't want to be legally married.
That system still isn't legally recognized in Japan, so if you want to keep separate surnames, a common-law marriage is your only option.
Well, learned something today.
He's obviously going to legally acknowledge paternity, right? Unless she's an idiot, she's not just going to roll over and accept "oh well, common-law marriage it is" without a fight. I'm sure they've got some kind of legal arrangement in place for the kid's sake. …Probably.
I thought this was about Hio Miyazawa's citizenship situation.
What did they end up doing about the kid's nationality?
He used to hold dual citizenship but chose Japanese, so the kid is Japanese too.
But doesn't the family register log exactly who filed what and when?
Thinking about that, registering the marriage before the birth — not just acknowledging paternity afterward — seems like it would've been better for the kid.
Feeling like your own say got pushed to the back burner isn't really about early or late timing — after that it's just a financial issue.
The two of them had to settle the surname question first,
so the kid's identity just had to wait its turn after that.
Background and Key Points of This Debate
A common-law marriage (“jikkonkon”) is a de facto marital relationship that doesn’t involve legally registering the marriage (“nyuseki”), and under Japanese law it’s treated similarly to a “common-law union” (naien). A child born to an unmarried couple, even if the father legally acknowledges paternity, is still recorded on the family register as a child born out of wedlock (“hichakushutsushi”), and can be treated differently from a child of a legal marriage when it comes to custody and inheritance. The “she doesn’t want to change her surname” explanation that came up repeatedly in the thread reflects the fact that Japan has not legislated a system allowing married couples to keep separate surnames, so there is currently no way to marry legally while each partner keeps their own name. Posters speculated about Miyazawa’s family background (a father from Yamanashi, a mother from Kanagawa who is half Japanese and half American) and about the child’s nationality, but none of this has been officially confirmed by Miyazawa himself or his agency, so it should be treated as speculation. There was also debate over the word “nyuseki” itself, since it technically refers to entering a spouse’s family register through marriage — making it, strictly speaking, not the correct term for two first-time spouses — with the word choice itself becoming one of the thread’s talking points.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Geino/Supo-soku+) thread “[Entertainment] Actress Yuina Kuroshima in Common-Law Marriage & Gives Birth with Popular Actor — Public Reacts “So It Really Is a Common-Law Marriage” — Even Her Mother Stunned, Asking “Why?” — Reveals Reason for Not Registering the Marriage.”
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