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Men’s and women’s uniforms offered to add an extra youthful fun aura to your Tokyo Disney photos.
Switch would solve a lot of school uniform-related problems, but not everyone thinks it’s a great idea.
Pressured to review outdated prohibitions, an entire prefecture says goodbye to “relics of the past”.
In a year like no other, school insists on enforcing same old dress code even while temperature in classrooms is anything but normal.
Some people may want to abolish school uniforms, but others are strongly in favor of them.
Less groping is always good, but the flip side to this countermeasure is what has people upset.
The rule is supposed to be for everybody, but it’s really only the girls who have to follow it.
Japanese fetish designer wins the war against plain style.
Brand-new middle school to let students of any gender wear whatever uniform components they feel comfortable in out of consideration to LGBT youths.
Principal emphasizes that skirt is no longer to be considered the “main” or “standard” uniform.



















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