A total of five rules will be dropped by nearly 200 public schools across the Japanese capital, including regulations on hair and underwear color, and a ban on “two block” hairstyles, which ...

Even if you have brown hair, many Japanese high schools require you to dye it black. In September of 2016, a teacher told the girl suing them for damages, “If you don’t dye your hair black ...

A court case and a highly critical newspaper article on the same day recently put a spotlight on the strict rules governing Japanese high school students' hair styles.. A 20-year-old man in ...

Miki Hata, the director of the town’s board of education, told the news site, “I think the school is concerned that eyebrows and hairstyles are a distraction to children in their developing ...

This year’s high school baseball championship in Japan highlighted a shift away from enforced crew cuts to more schools allowing students to choose their own hairstyles. A recent survey in Japan ...

Japanese Teen Says School Told Her to Dye Her Natural Hair Black or Drop Out. 2 minute read. Japanese schoolgirls walk on a street in Tokyo on September 1, 2017. Toru Yamanaka—AFP/Getty Images.

A total of five rules will be dropped by nearly 200 public schools across the Japanese capital, including regulations on hair and underwear color, and a ban on “two block” hairstyles, which ...