In a landmark policy shift, the Justice Ministry will submit an amendment to the Diet seeking the abolishment of a six-month ban on women remarrying after divorce, an official said Friday.
The amendment contains a provision that women are not pregnant at the time the marriage is dissolved.
If enacted, the proposal — drafted in response to a Supreme Court ruling in December — will end a law that came into effect in 1898 that critics have blasted as sexist.
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