00:00Until 2024, Japanese women had a waiting period before remarriage.
00:03This law established in 1898 legally stipulated that after a divorce,
00:07women could not remarry for 100 days, but only women were subject to this.
00:10The reason why this law was made is because if a woman got divorced and remarried and then gave birth,
00:14it would be difficult to know who the child's biological father was.
00:16That's why this law was created.
00:17If the remarriage prohibition...
00:18If a woman gave birth during the prohibition period,
00:20the ex-husband was considered the child's biological father.
00:23Of course, now we live in an era where everything can be confirmed through DNA,
00:26so this law has become useless.
