Are Ponytails Banned in Japanese Schools?

Well… kind of.

Edward Thomas
JAPUNDIT
Published in
6 min readMar 30, 2022

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I recently did a short piece for the publication Everything Short Form about how Japanese high schools were starting to lighten up on rules governing hairstyles, underwear color, and other things.

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Edward Thomas
JAPUNDIT

Chicago | Japan since 1969 | Japanese>English translator, editor | Teaches English at Japanese University. | Buy me a ko-fi @ ko-fi.com/edwardthomas