Are Japanese Students Allowed To Wear Makeup
Accept you ever heard that Japanese school kids must habiliment white underwear and teachers really cheque the color? Japanese schoolhouse rules are known to exist extremely strict and they are collectively referred to equally "black school rules." Here are the 10 most common and bizarre Japanese school rules based on the 18-carat experience of someone who was raised in Nihon and went to Japanese schools – me!
In case yous don't believe what I'yard going to write in this article, I added some supporting resource and tweets from the actual victims of the Japanese school rules to prove that this is an ongoing controversy throughout Japan as of 2021.
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Your must wear white underwear
Your must clothing white underwear (Photo courtesy of Photo Air-conditioning)
OK, let me give yous the almost shocking case first.
Some (not all) inferior high and high schools in Japan require their students to wear white underwear.
Luckily plenty, my schools didn't force students to wear specific types of underwear, but some Japanese schools do actually check the color of their students' underwear every morn when they come up to school!
Sometimes information technology's a male teacher that checks female person students' underwear. I tin can only imagine how kids in puberty would feel about such an inspection, just teachers recollect that they accept to do information technology for a good crusade to maintain morals of the schoolhouse.
Let's see some actual (ex-)students' tweets and articles about this schoolhouse rule:
うちの学校も学年主任(オッサン)に下着チェックされたな
で、色が付いてたり柄が付いてたり主任が気に食わないもの()だとその場で脱がされた。今思えばちょっと変
— モス🥪 (@Cain_Sho) May 19, 2021
Quick translation: "In my school, the year-head (an one-time guy)" checked our underwear. Whenever he constitute anything that didn't match his preferences, like colored or patterned, nosotros had to take it off on the spot. It's a bit bizarre, come to think of it now."
#ブラック校則 で思い出すのが
「下着は白」というやつ。
抜き打ちで鏡でチェックされた。
そこまでするか…
でもさ、夏服のブラウスで
透けないのはベージュなんだわ。
意味わからないから
転校したけどね。— 007KeiKei🏹加害性あるグループメンバー刺客の標的꙳★野次将軍😑わきまえない誤字ッター🌠 (@007_Kei0909W) June 9, 2020
Quick translation: "What 'black school rules' reminds me of is 'white underwear.' A instructor checked my underwear using a mirror by surprise. Was it at all necessary… Merely you know what, it's beige which is the least visible through summertime clothing. Well, I changed schools because it was nonsense."
「下着の色が指定」校則を中学時代に体験10代は15.8％、高校11.4％。「下着の色をチェックされた」10代も2.five％。「修学旅行で白でない下着を没収され、2泊3日をノーブラで過ごした」「男性教諭から呼び出され、『下着青？ 白にしなきゃダメだよ』と言われた https://t.co/Hh9EFYwXHl #Yahooニュース
— ミニメディア通信猫村記者 (@yuuzarmei) January 28, 2019
Quick translation: "15.8％ of teenagers experienced the 'white underwear' school rule in junior high schoolhouse, 11.4% in high school. 2.five% of teens were checked the color of their underwear. Some say 'my underwear was confiscated during school trip and I had to spend 3 days without bra,' 'a male person teacher called me and said 'your underwear is blue? Information technology has to be white.'"
The Japanese news in the above tweet was published in 2019, so it'south not a story from the last century. This commodity translated into English likewise says that the white underwear schoolhouse rule is still widespread in 2020. In this article, a girl who graduated from inferior highschool in March 2021 claims that there were many unreasonable school rules in her school also.
The reason behind this rule is this: Some people believe that not-white underwear can be seen through shirts and students might go far trouble because their underwear might get others aroused. In order to brand students' underwear less visible and preclude them from getting in troubles, teachers make their students wearable white underwear.
This is no exaggeration nor a made-up story. I know how unbelievable this is, but this is the reality of Japan in 2021.
On a side note, a recent study by an underwear manufacturer proved that white underwear was more visible through shirts, but it hasn't been convincing plenty to make teachers alter their minds:
校則で下着の色が白と決められているという記事をよく見かけます。理由で多く見るのが「透けないように」。下着屋として言わずにいられないので簡単な検証をしました。肌よりも薄い淡い色はとっても透けます。透けないようにが目的の校則であれば是非キャミなどインナーの着用をお勧めします🙇♀️ moving picture.twitter.com/kBEzSmg5D6
— Body FOCUS (@body_focus) August 22, 2018
Quick translation: "We see many articles saying that students are required to wear white underwear past school rules because other colors can be seen through. Merely every bit an underwear manufacturer, we had to say something and did a quick experiment. Lighter colors than your peel are very visible."
No pilus bleaching immune, your hair must be black
No pilus bleaching allowed, your pilus must exist black (Photo courtesy of Photo AC)
This is ane of the most common black school rules in Japan. In most Japanese schools, nobody is allowed to dye or bleach their hair unless there is a specific reason I'one thousand going to mention after.
There might exist some exceptions, but as far equally I know, every school in Japan forbids their pupils/students to dye their pilus unless their natural hair color is not black. In my high school, some students secretly dyed their blackness hair brown and told their teachers that their hair was naturally brown, but if teachers found out, they would strength the students to dye their hair blackness.
However, this rule only applies to dyeing black pilus some other color. If your hair is non black by nature, your school will either force you to dye information technology black or submit a "proof of natural pilus" to your schoolhouse with a photo from your childhood. My sis, who has vivid brown hair, had to submit such a proof to her school to prove that her pilus was naturally brown.
This is because every unmarried Japanese is supposed to take black hair and everybody without exception, even if you are non-Japanese, has to follow the conventionalities. In short, it's not "dyeing hair" that is prohibited, merely it's "having non-black pilus" that is prohibited in Nihon.
The same goes for perms. As well equally dyeing your hair, getting a perm is also prohibited past Japanese schools.
Once I heard virtually a case where a teacher yelled at a half African, half Japanese student with curly hair maxim "your permed hair is confronting our schoolhouse rule!" Just considering his background, it's no surprise that he has curly hair, correct? What the heck was the teacher expecting?? Unfortunately, things similar this happen daily in Japan. Unfortunately I lost the link to this case, but you will find tons of similar cases if you lot google it in Japanese (attempt "ハーフ 髪 校則違反 -ハーフアップ" for case and you will meet a lot of half Japanese banned from having their natural hair).
In that location is another baroque and outrageous case where a half Japanese student'due south dark-brown hair was filled with black ink in her year book! See this commodity translated into English for more details. I don't know why her schoolhouse did such a thing, just it'due south probably because they thought that having brown hair was not a right thing and they "corrected" the mistake. Looks similar this happened in 2007 or so and not recently, just things like this still happen very oft in the 21st century Japan.
Past the fashion, most schools don't bear the cost of blackening or straightening hair.
No two-block haircut (undercut) immune
No two-block haircut (undercut) immune (Photo courtesy of Photo Ac)
Recently, some public loftier schools in Tokyo forestall two-block haircut and the news went viral. Two-block haircut is an improved version of undercut, and it's considered to exist a hairstyle of delinquents.
Students with this haircut might exist targeted by other delinquent students and they might be involved in unwanted accidents or incidents–This is the reason behind this school rule. Teachers introduced it in order to protect their students from troubles. In Japan, dressing upward yourself or having a fashionable hairstyle is considered bad because it will cause troubles.
Merely so many Japanese adults, also as students, fabricated an objection against this dominion because it's nonsense to even call back that a specific haircut could possibly put i in problem.
Also, the Emperor of Japan has 2-block haircut! Has he ever gotten in trouble considering of his hairstyle?
No pierced earrings allowed
No pierced earrings allowed (Photo courtesy of Photo Air conditioning)
Pierced earrings are not allowed in most schools in Japan considering they are also flashy. I think the rule comes from the same reason every bit the ii-block haircut rule. The Japanese think that dressing up oneself will put him-/herself in trouble, and this is why Japanese schools tend to require their students to dress and human activity as humble every bit possible.
I uncertainty if a pair of elementary earrings is flashy in any fashion, but that'southward the dominion. My cousin who is from the United states of america had to remove her earrings when her parents moved to Japan and she started going to a Japanese public schoolhouse.
The same applies to other accessories such as necklaces or rings. Near schools forbid those accessories. Some elementary schools fifty-fifty prohibit their pupils from wearing a watch. I had to change elementary schools when my parents moved to a different city in my childhood, and one of my elementary schools allowed wearing a lookout man while the other didn't. Both were public schools, just rules differ from schoolhouse to schoolhouse.
No romantic relationships allowed
No romantic relationships allowed (Photo courtesy of Photo Air conditioning)
Given the strict rules I have already mentioned, it might not be difficult to imagine, but many schools forbid romantic relationships between students.
One day, a female high school student was chatting with a male student from another high school. When the female pupil's school found out the event, they made her compose an essay on her "misdeed." The male pupil could have been her brother, simply looks like it didn't matter.
I'yard not sure how many schools forbid relationships, but I estimate quite a few schools practise.
My high schoolhouse was relatively generous compared to those loftier schools and they allowed "moderate and salubrious" relationships.
Leaving school dejeuner not allowed
Leaving school lunch not allowed (Photo courtesy of Photo AC)
The majority of schools in Nihon serve their pupils/students school lunch for a fee. Every bit the school lunch program is a part of dietary education, kids are non allowed to go out any food provided from their schoolhouse. Because of this, fifty-fifty if you can't eat some nutrient, your instructor will not allow you lot to finish luncheon until you swallow that food.
I can't consume shrimps, but 1 24-hour interval shrimps were served at lunch. Seeing that I wasn't going to swallow shrimps, my instructor forced me to eat them and she didn't permit me finish my lunch until the afternoon form began. My teacher finally gave in and I didn't have to eat the shrimps, merely she was murmuring about me to the end.
Likewise, as the Japanese have traditionally been taught never to exit food, they feel guilty about leaving food apart from the dietary didactics. This feeling of guilt makes teachers upset if their pupils leave school tiffin.
Having to eat upwardly your food without leaving is a beautiful didactics, but the trouble is, what if you are allergic to a certain nutrient?
Today, the understanding on allergies has grown to a sure level, but some teachers still force their pupils to eat the food they are allergic to because teachers think those who have allergies are spoiled and can't live through them. With strong listen and guts, i can overcome annihilation–allergies or diseases–that'due south their reasoning.
Only black or navy hairties allowed
But blackness or navy hairties allowed (Photo courtesy of Photo Ac)
Not only are students forbidden to vesture earrings, merely they are as well not allowed to use colorful hairties.
The majority of schools just allow black and navy hairties and ban whatever other colors. The colors allowed differ from school to school and they can be black and brownish in some schools, just many schools ban red or gilded hairties.
The reason backside this rule is the aforementioned equally earrings and other accessories: The Japanese think that dressing oneself overly flashy will put him-/herself in trouble.
Your skirt must not exist more than X inches above your knees
Your brim must not be more than 10 inches above your knees (Photo courtesy of Photo Ac)
This is another typical schoolhouse dominion in Japan: Most schools define the lengths of their schoolhouse uniform skirts.
Many teenagers desire to article of clothing curt skirts, but their schools forbid their skirts to be, say, more than than 3 inches above their knees. Only do you lot recollect teenagers that are eager to wearing apparel upwardly volition give in then hands? No, they won't.
Those who still want to wear short skirts use a secret skill to fold their skirts. Equally teachers might suddenly inspect the skirt lengths and fissure down on students that wear shorter skirts than allowed, students normally fold their skirts at the waist to make them look shorter and chop-chop unfold them when teachers start crackdown. Smart huh? I did this also when I was a pupil.
Nonetheless, some teachers patently know this and they want to crack down on folded skirts. Recently I read an article about a female educatee whose teacher suddenly flipped up her skirt in front of other students to check if her skirt was not folded. Her shorts were exposed, only she couldn't practise or say anything because she was likewise intimidated.
No stockings or tights immune fifty-fifty in winter
No stockings or tights allowed even in winter (Photo courtesy of Photo Air-conditioning)
The side by side schoolhouse rule is "no tights or stockings allowed."
Argh, I'm getting ill of describing all these details because they make me recall my school days in Japan. But I won't stop because I want the world to know the reality of Japan.
Anyway.
Some schools make their students wear socks of certain lengths and colors, and anything other than that is non allowed. This means that students are not allowed to wear stockings or tights fifty-fifty if it's common cold in winter because those are non the types of socks divers past school.
I know the reasons behind most black school rules in Japan (not that I understand them), simply I accept no idea at all where this detail rule came from.
Some parents react strongly confronting this dominion and insist on abolishment of it. As a issue, some schools gave in and immune students to wear stockings/tights in wintertime, but others didn't and there is however ongoing controversy.
You lot must tie your hair if information technology's longer than shoulder length
You must tie your hair if it's longer than shoulder length (Photo courtesy of Photo Air conditioning)
The last bizarre but common school dominion is this: Yous must tie upward your hair at all times if information technology'southward longer than shoulder length.
Not only during gymnastics form, but students are also required to tie up their long hair whenever they are at school.
This is another rule I don't know the reason behind. I judge teachers think longer hair could disturb students and distract them from classes, only this is not decisive. Perchance students with long hair are overly attractive (to teachers) and teachers think that the students might be in trouble? If I guessed right, the reason for this dominion is the same every bit the "earrings not allowed" dominion.
Observations
So… how did you feel nigh these rules? There are a lot more bizarre but common rules such equally you are not immune to talk to students from other classrooms or schools. Many of them are non ever piece of cake to empathize, and many students are not happy to follow them.
Earlier I conclude this article, let me give some comments as an ex-educatee who experienced many of these blackness school rules for herself.
What the Japanese school rules are all well-nigh?
Some of yous might be wondering what the Japanese school rules are all most, because at that place are no such rules in other countries like the The states, UK or France but students alive happily without them.
There are two major factors behind this.
One is that the Japanese think that students volition become delinquent without strict rules. If y'all let kids do as they want, they will fall into sin. This is the Japanese way of thinking. Non only for kids, in that location are so many rules for adults to keep in Nippon also. This is purely my personal opinion, but I kind of experience that the Japanese can't alive without making not necessarily reasonable rules, keeping them and monitoring each other by them. The validity of the rules doesn't always matter as long as people tin can monitor each other. Once more, this is purely my thought and some rules are essential in other countries as well.
Secondly, school is non only a place to teach school subjects, only it's also a identify for parenting. Teachers are required to play the role of parents, and thus they are required to teach things that parents are supposed to. Because of this culture, teachers interfere in students' personal lives and sometimes go too far.
What about human rights?
Many people would probably think "but don't the Japanese school rules violate human rights?" The answer is yes, some of them apparently exercise.
In fact, at that place have been some lawsuits over violation of human rights past the blackness Japanese school rules, simply surprisingly, the most claimants have lost because Japanese courts avoid messing with the lath of didactics. The board of teaching is solely responsible for regulating schools, and even courts don't have a say.
And the board of education don't always command schools, allowing schools to come upwardly with random rules that they tin't even logically explain for themselves. Well, the schools remember their reasons are logical and they volition say with confidence that their rules are necessary, simply I, personally, don't think whatever rules that override man rights but to maintain morals tin can be logical.
How practice the Japanese experience about these rules?
So, don't the Japanese feel annihilation about those rules simply just obey and so? Yeah and no, they followed whatever rules blindly until a generation ago, but they are offset to alter.
While many people, younger or older, still recollect school rules are necessary to keep kids on the right track, others think that these rules are nothing but violation of man rights and they began to speak upwardly.
Here are typical comments from both supporters and opponents:
Supporters of Japanese school rules
- Kids will take the wrong path without rules. Even if the rules seem irrelevant, there are reasons behind them and students must keep them.
- I don't think the rules are e'er reasonable, but everyone keeps them. If my child is the only ane who doesn't, he/she will stand out and will be bullied.
- When kids become adults, they will take to keep so many unreasonable rules anyway. Keeping school rules as a kid is a function of training.
Opponents of Japanese school rules
- Male person teachers checking female students' underwear? Sick! That'south nothing but sexual harassment.
- My kid is of Japanese nationality but half French with brown hair, and her school requires her to dye her pilus blackness. It's so humiliating that her school denies the way my child was born.
- Schools are not military. They should abolish the one-time fashioned and meaningless rules immediately.
Those who oppose the rules and speak up, however, don't always win because it's extremely difficult to obtain help from either courts or the board of educational activity. The but way to alter the culture is spread the stories and increase awareness nigh the issue.
Conclusion
I hope this article helped raise your interest in the Japanese "black school rules" in 2021, non in the last century.
In summary, at that place are so many rules in Japanese schools such as your underwear must be white, but this is because the Japanese believe that dressing oneself overly flashy (including underwear) will get oneself in trouble. In order to protect students from troubles, in that location are strict rules in schools of Nippon. However, while some Japanese hold to those rules, many oppose them and speak up because they believe that some rules violate human rights.
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Source: https://japanalyze.com/10-school-rules-in-japan/
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