A woman in Japan has won compensation after teachers repeatedly pressurised her to dye her hair black, causing her to drop out of school. The school did not believe her natural hair colour was ...

An 18-year-old Japanese girl is suing her local government after her school made her repeatedly dye her naturally-brown hair black, media reports say. The girl says she was told she would have to ...

The issue of school regulations covering hair color is one that has come before the courts and stirred international interest in the rigid system that governs Japanese schools to encourage conformity.

One's hair color is determined during this process ... but also for our physical health." (Japanese original by Harumi Kimoto ...

The teachers "recognized that the female student's natural hair color is black based on reasonable grounds," the ruling said. The lawsuit shed light on Japan’s rigid school regulations that ...

Japanese schools should not define “natural hair” as straight, black hair. Natural hair depends on one’s racial and cultural background. For example, mixed-race students could naturally have ...