Japanese junior and senior high school uniforms are undergoing a wave of major transformations not seen in decades, with some moving away from mass-producing designs. Some schools have also ...

Japan’s schools are loosening their conservative ... Officials of Kanko Gakuseifuku Co., a school uniform manufacturer based in Okayama, said orders are up for shorts and other summer items.

In recent years, there has been a movement across Japan to make school uniforms gender neutral, and the survey revealed that the vast majority of school nurses think there should be flexible options.

For a lot of kids in Japan, the first thing they do when they get to school in the morning isn’t to sharpen a pencil, take out a sheet of paper, or open a textbook and stand it up on their desk in ...