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Japan: The Hair Police

Categories: East Asia, Japan, Education, Ethnicity & Race, Youth

Debito writes about the experience of a Brazilian high-school student in Japan's Shizuoka prefecture, apparently “forced by her school to dye her hair weekly because it was not as dark as her peers’”. Debito went to the school itself to talk to one of the so-called “Hair Police”, and returned with this report [1].