Controversial rules on hairstyles and underwear are to be scrapped at high schools run by the Tokyo City Government, after pressure from students.
Almost 200 public high schools and other educational institutions are to drop five regulations, including one requiring students to have black hair, from next month, the Mainichi Shimbun reported, citing official sources.
The newspaper said that rules designating the color of students’ underwear and a ban on the “two block” hairstyle short at the back and sides and longer on top are also to be dropped.
The move comes after a survey conducted last year of 240 schools