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What? Can you elaborate on the hair dying and color enforcement?

Color of underwear: https://japantoday.com/category/national/majority-of-nagasak...

Every time I see this, my first question is "How do people know the color of a schoolgirl's underwear?" Then I remember the key point of their dress code - a short skirt.

Fuuuuuu

Not sure if you're joking or being sarcastic or projecting or what, but it's not actually true. Often girls where long skirts, the teachers would check the underwear color.

> teachers would check the underwear color

That's... not better. Not even remotely better.

> it's actually not true.

"Seira fuku (セーラー服 ) is a common style of uniform worn by female middle school students, occasionally by high school students, and even rarely by elementary school students. It was first introduced as a school uniform in 1920 in Heian Jogakuin (平安女学院) and 1921 by the principal of Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University (福岡女学院), Elizabeth Lee. "

Knee length - a common length - is relatively short. It's no mini skirt, but I regularly see men's swim trunks that would cover more leg than those skirts do.

https://japantoday.com/category/national/tokyo-public-school...

I feel like in other modern democratic government in the world the government would step in and sort this out.

Edit: Love to know the reason for the down vote here. I don't know of a single modern democratic country on earth where it would be ok for people to be forced to have their hair died black. Correct me please.

Lots of supposedly modern countries can have very restrictive uniform and hairstyle rules. In the US you are unlikely to be asked to dye your hair, but may be made to straighten it.

I don't know why you were downvoted but your comment is as if I wrote "The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. I feel like in other modern democratic governments in the world the government would step in and sort out the incarceration rate."

It raises the question why you think the government would stop doing "Bad thing" if that's what the voters want.

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