In the old days, changing your name was like, if you kept using a social common-use name for a long time and took those kinds of official records to the court, otherwise it was hard to change your name, that sort of…
In the past, as for name changes, it should have been that unless you kept using a social common name for a long time and brought such public records to the court, a name change was difficult, or something like that, but at some point the story changed to something like glitter names being easy to change at the municipal office of your residence or at the office of your registered domicile or something, and I don’t really understand the reconciliation between the two facts or the latest setting. Also, a little while ago I saw on the news that a court was deliberating a transgender person’s legal change of sex on the family register, but even around 2008 it should have been not all that difficult for transgender people to change the sex on their family register. ○ When the Kimura Takuya–starring “HERO” was a hit, I often heard and saw talk that, like that, as in the drama, prosecutors going out to the scene and investigating on foot doesn’t happen, that’s only in fiction, but in reality, in the current world setting, prosecutors carefully examine the materials of individual cases, even small cases, always conduct suspect interrogations, keep in touch with the police, and furthermore, when it comes to major cases where heinous crimes or the realization of social justice are strongly demanded, they actually go to the site and investigate. The Kimura Takuya–starring “HERO” is not fiction at all. On the other hand, the United Kingdom long had the setting that it was a private-prosecution principle, with criminal prosecutions carried out not by the state but by individual victims and the like, but in reality there is operational practice similar to a “state-prosecution principle.” In the past private prosecutions were the rule, but at present the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), a unified national body, bears the responsibility for prosecutions. Also, even during the period it was said to be a private-prosecution principle, traditionally it seems police officers…
This case is part of the Mandela Effect case database based on "The Window of Opportunity: A Guidepost to the Mandela Effect — The Ultra-Secret X-Files" by Aoyama Takuto.