The Diet on Wednesday passed an amendment effectively scrapping a six-month ban on the remarriage of newly divorced women, putting an end to the century-old tradition that had been slammed as sexist.
In what will become a historic policy shift, the amendment enables women to remarry immediately after divorce, on condition they are not pregnant upon the dissolution of their marriage.
With an estimated 90 percent of potential divorcees not pregnant at the time of filing, the revision will virtually end what the Supreme Court last year labeled as an "excessive restriction" on women's rights.