The Tokyo District Court said Tuesday that the way the daughter of an unmarried couple has been registered in their family registry infringed on their privacy because it clearly shows she was born out of wedlock.
But the court rejected the couple's claim for damages and alteration of the registry.
Presiding Judge Hiroyuki Shibata said: "Considering the general public consciousness on such an issue, it is understandable that one would not want to make open the fact that a child is born out of wedlock. There is also no rationality in the way it is now written, that makes one see such information at a glance.