On many sites you can find the statement that in Japanese educational institutions there are very harsh requirements for the appearance of students, in particular to the color of the hair. We decided to check if this is really so.
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If you make the Japanese teenagers in Google, you can find thousands of photos brightly, sometimes even extravagant and painted young people with hairstyles of all colors of the rainbow. Therefore, it may seem that children in this country have complete freedom of expression. However, judging by reports in the media, in Japanese schools, things are completely different. There are very strict rules regarding the appearance of students. In 2020, the college of lawyers Fukuoki held study And she found out that in many schools of this city there are requirements not only for the shade of hair, but also for haircuts and even to the color of the underwear of students (and, to be noticed, these subjects of the wardrobe do not have to stick out at all: representatives of the school may force the student to undress and if the color does not comply with the rules, call parents or guardians to school).
Moreover, sometimes the rules prescribing to children to have a certain hair color reach the point of absurdity. So, in 2017, a schoolgirl from Osaka Submitted To court for his school for the fact that there she was forced to dye brown hair in black from nature. In 2021 Decidedthat the school should pay the student compensation for the indispensable harm caused, but the rule of the mandatory black hair was not recognized as unlawful - the court criticized only excess measures that were taken in relation to the girl. And this is not the only case when adolescents were criticized and attacked by school leadership due to hairstyles. In 2022 in the Hyo Prefecture brought A student with a brown hair before fainting-the girl lost consciousness due to the fact that she was scolded and pulled by the hair of a “wrong” color, and also did not allow her to contact relatives. Later, the school apologized to the girl’s parents for the actions of the teachers.
In 2019, a group of activists Turned In the Tokyo Council for Education with a petition, in which she urged to put an end to the requirements of dyeing hair in black to those students who have a different color. The petition collected more than 19,000 signatures, including people who have suffered from these requirements in the past. It was reported that earlier the education council has already addressed the directors of the capital's schools with a request to stop this practice, but after the petition released Written order. However, after that, the media still appeared messages The fact that the Tokyo schools demanded that students provide evidence that they are really natural from the black color.
In 2022, 200 public schools in Tokyo announcedWhat cancel strict rules regarding hairstyles, hair color and underwear. Nevertheless, most of the rest of the Japanese educational institutions, apparently, can still make such requirements for students.
Including because of the strict requirements for their appearance and attacks due to inconsistency of some children in Japan in general Refused Going to school, there is even a special term for this phenomenon - Butoko. Back in the 1980s, in response to the growth of the number of such children in Japan, the so-called Free schools. These educational institutions put at the forefront an individual approach to students and the principles of personality freedom. There, students do not require a certain appearance, and the relationship between teachers and students is much less formal. However, there are relatively few such schools in the country.
Thus, in many Japanese schools there are really rules according to which students' hair color should definitely be black - it is really impossible to paint them in other shades. At the same time, some of the inhabitants of Japan have a different hair color - for example, chestnut. Although some students were even forced to dye their hair in black, in recent years, many schools under pressure from the public abandon these requirements. Nevertheless, apparently, in some educational institutions, such a practice is to this day.
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