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अमर उजालाPolitics & government

सपा के नेता प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी का पुतला फूंकने गए थे और खुद को ही जला लिया

Publisher’s rating: भ्रामक

The review says the video is from 2022 and does not show an SP member accidentally setting himself on fire while trying to burn a Modi effigy. It identifies the man as an SP member who attempted suicide after the party lost the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly election.

日本ファクトチェックセンター(JFC)Politics & government

選択的夫婦別姓が実現すると戸籍制度が崩壊する?

Publisher’s rating: 誤り

The claim circulated on X, TikTok, YouTube and Threads that allowing married couples to choose separate surnames would destroy Japan’s family registry system. The review examined what the proposed arrangement would change and whether it would remove the registry’s functions. It describes the proposal as letting couples who want to do so keep their pre-marriage surnames, while leaving the existing option to adopt one spouse’s surname in place. The review sets that change against the registry’s stated role: recording and certifying Japanese citizens’ nationality and family relationships, and recording events such as marriage and divorce. It reports that former Justice Ministers had addressed the concern in parliamentary proceedings: in 2024, Justice Minister Ryūji Koizumi said the registry’s function and importance would not change if the system were introduced; the review also quotes similar statements by Ken Saito in 2023 and Yoko Kamikawa in 2021. The review also reports that the Constitutional Democratic Party’s bill, submitted on April 30, 2025, would let couples choose a shared surname or keep their respective pre-marriage surnames, with the child’s surname decided at marriage. In response to the review’s inquiry, the party said its proposal assumed that a married couple with different surnames and their children could be recorded in one registry entry, and that the bill would not alter the registry system. On the evidence presented, the claim that the registry would collapse confuses changing surname rules with abolishing or disabling the registry’s role in documenting nationality and family relationships.