Evidently I was wrong.

Two weeks ago in this space, in a passing reference to the unanimous Sept. 4 Supreme Court ruling declaring unconstitutional a Civil Code provision denying full inheritance rights to heirs born out of wedlock, I wrote, "The rank injustice of discriminating against children born, quite unwittingly, to parents not legally married seems glaringly clear."

The truth is (or seems to be) that nothing (or very little) is "glaringly clear," at least not to everybody in the same way, and last week Shukan Shincho magazine weighed in with a vigorous critique of the ruling.