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...

family's daughter. Child marriage Forced marriage Japanese adult adoption Mukoyōshi Wolf & Huang 1980, p. 2. Sa 1985, p. 292–294. Arnhart 2005, p. 203. Wolf...

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...

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...

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 was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate for his prediction of the pi meson, or pion. Physics is a science...

Inagaki family adopted a son of a shizoku family Maeda Tameji as their mukoyōshi (adopted son-in-law) and Setsuko's husband, but he left the family within...

to actor Masahiro Motoki, who was adopted into the Uchida family as a mukoyōshi. Yuya was the grandfather to three children by his daughter. Uchida was...

Takamiyama Daigorō (髙見山 大五郎, born 16 June 1944 as Jesse James Wailani Kuhaulua) is an American-born Japanese former professional sumo wrestler. Wrestling...

Yakumo Koizumi (小泉 八雲, 27 June 1850 – 26 September 1904), born Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (Greek: Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χέρν, romanized: Patríkios Lefkádios...

(伊賀栗 レイト, Igaguri Reito) is one of the protagonists of Ultraman Geed, a mukoyōshi of the Igaguri family. Age 30 years old, Leito is a weak-willed but serious...

Osamu Suzuki (鈴木 修, Suzuki Osamu, born January 30, 1930) is a Japanese businessman and the current Chairman of Suzuki Motor Corporation. He has been either...

co-worker at the tailors, proposes marriage and enters the Ohara family as a mukoyōshi. The two have three daughters while running a successful business making...

over the family business. Following the common Japanese tradition of mukoyōshi, he adopted his son-in-law, Sekiryo Kaneda, who then legally took his...

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

Risaburo Toyoda (豊田 利三郎, Toyoda Risaburō, March 5, 1884 – June 3, 1952) was a Japanese entrepreneur. He was the son-in-law of Toyota Industries Co., Ltd...

Karoyan Andō (Japanese: 安藤 カロヤン, romanized: Andō Karoyan; born Kaloyan Stefanov Mahlyanov, Bulgarian: Калоян Стефанов Махлянов; born 19 February 1983)...

Timothy Koleto (小松原 尊, Komatsubara Takeru, born June 17, 1991) is an American-born ice dancer who became a Japanese citizen in 2020. He and his wife, Misato...

family had no male heirs, a foreign husband could be adopted (Japanese: mukoyōshi), deriving the nationality of his wife to carry on the family line. Under...

(夢星 銀河, Yumeboshi Ginga): The patriarch of the Yumeboshi family through mukoyōshi, aged 35 years old and worked as a teacher in nursery school. His true...

Carter, Andrew Chemale, Farid Milliken, Kitty L. Kutterolf, Steffen Mukoyoshi, Hideki Chen, Wenhuang Kachovich, Sarah Mitchison, Freya L. Bourlange...

family had no male heirs, a foreign husband could be adopted (Japanese: mukoyōshi), deriving the nationality of his wife to carry on the family line. Under...

Yukihiko Ikeda (池田 行彦, Ikeda Yukihiko, 13 May 1937 – 28 January 2004) was a Japanese bureaucrat and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) politician who served...

Takeo Takahashi (高橋 武夫, Takahashi Takeo, born May 13, 1947) (former name; Takeo Kimura, 木村 武夫) is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played...