A mukoyōshi (婿養子, lit. 'adopted son-in-law') is an adult man who is adopted into a Japanese family as a daughter's husband, and who takes the family's...

daughter's husband by her family. The son-in-law becomes a mukoyōshi, an adopted husband. Mukoyōshi status is preferred by families seeking a strong heir....

role to play in the family, and nearly two-thirds rejected the need for mukoyōshi adoption of a son in order to continue the family. Other changes, such...

as his heir (mukoyōshi, "adopted son-in-law"); Yoshiakira was later recognized as the kazoku and became a marquis in 1884. The mukoyōshi adoption of the...

the continuance of a family business. This form of adoption is known as mukoyōshi ("son-in-law adoption"). Depending on the laws of the jurisdiction, adult...

year. He is also known as Hiro and Hiroshi Miyauchi (宮内 博史) (his pre-mukoyōshi name), and has been a part of both the S.S.T. Band and the sound unit...

actress Kirin Kiki and rock'n roll singer Yuya Uchida, in 1995. As a mukoyōshi, he took his wife's surname, which is thus his legal surname. The couple...

the actor Masahiro Motoki, who was adopted into the Uchida family as a mukoyōshi. Kirin has three grandchildren by her daughter, including actress Kyara...

voluntary, a fee would be charged for it. Additionally, at the same time, the mukoyōshi system, i.e. an adoption of a daughter's husband (婿養子制度), which up until...

Hideki Yukawa ForMemRS FRSE (湯川 秀樹, Yukawa Hideki, 23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel...