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Everyone in Japan will be called Sato by 2531 unless marriage law changed

• nxobject 3y ago
  Not an April Fools'; the original analysis of Japanese convergence of last names is at https://think-name.jp/assets/pdf/Sato_estimation_yoshida_hiroshi.pdf https://think-name.jp/assets/pdf/Sato_estimation_yoshida_hir....
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• mtmail 3y ago
  Related with 60 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39895869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39895869
  • nxobject 3y ago
    Oof, thanks for catching that. Should have searched by title instead of URL.
• mrkeen 3y ago
  One wonders what worries the Japanese had about the year 2024 back in 1517.