The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education (東京都教育委員会 Tōkyō-to Kyōiku Iinkai) is the board of education in Tokyo, Japan. The board directly manages most of the public high schools in all 23 special wards, the Western Tokyo, and all islands under Tokyo's jurisdiction.
In 2019, policies requiring students who do not naturally have black hair to dye it as such were struck down.[1] In 2017, as stated by survey results, 57% of the state-operated schools in the metropolis required students who did not have hair naturally colored black to submit documents proving so.[2] The Japanese Communist Party criticized the so-called hair color code and measures requiring parents to prove hair color.[3]
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- ^ "Tokyo bans forced hair-dyeing at metropolitan junior, senior high schools". Mainichi Shimbun. 2019-09-07. Retrieved 2019-09-09. - Japanese: "黒染め指導禁止通知 都教委、都立中高に文書で示す ／東京"
- ^ "Survey: 57% of Tokyo high schools demand hair-color proof". Asahi Shimbun. 2017-05-01. Archived from the original on 2017-05-02. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
- ^ Ikegami, Momomo (2021-02-27). "Hair color code at Tokyo high schools raises JCP hackles". Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 2021-02-28.