1/14/2006

Yahoo! News Photo
Japanese high school students brave the snow in Nagoya, central Japan ….. Japan issued avalanche warnings on Friday as temperatures were forecast to rise in mountainous areas buried under record snowfalls….

“Rules is rules” in Japan. It may have snowed almost meter in Nagoya but school rules say “sailor suit tops and pleated short skirts” are the required uniform.
Oddly, school uniform skirts have got so short in Japan many furyou girls (delinquent wannabes) wear their gym sweatpants gym shorts together with hyper-short skirts. Schools in “snow country” relax the uniform rules to allow girls to add training wear when needed but Nagoya fashion rules seems to not include common sense.
A snow country schoolgirl—