Talk:Matasaka Kamishiro/@comment-179.212.5.196-20160121122626/@comment-10733658-20160121182721

Anon, you cited a single personal example of one individual supposedly deciding to do this. That isn't the same as what you are claiming, which is that surnames are passed from mother to child in Japan.

Which is not true. Japan, like the majority of the old, traditionally and typically passes surnames from Father to Child.

For example, if surnames came from the mother, our protagonist would not be named "Kaneki". He would also share his surname with his cousin, instead of them having two different surnames. Their surnames, as the vast majority of all Japanese children, were from their fathers and not their mothers.