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 lawyers have asked an elite boys’ high school in Osaka to reconsider its practice of trimming the hair of students to conform to rules, after some students demanded a rule change while ...

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 ...