"JK uniform", where "JK" stands for "Joshi Kousei" — female high school student in Japanese — is one of the most popular fashion trends in China. The hashtag #JKuniform has over 1.7 billion ...

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 ...

(Mainichi/Tsuyoshi Goto) TOKYO -- "Girls wear skirts, boys wear pants," used to be the common expectation for school uniforms in Japan. But recently, students are being offered more options ...

KIMITSU, Chiba -- Inbound tourists dressed in traditional Japanese uniforms experienced nostalgic school life in Japan during a unique one-day program at a former school building here ...

In film and on television, the school uniform can be a surprisingly ... drew inspiration from the serafuku uniforms used in Japanese high schools (and inspired, in turn, by European naval uniforms).

For many, however, school uniform is irretrievably tainted by its association with the Nazi era and Hitler Youth. In Japan, boys in secondary school wear an outfit modelled on 19th Century Prussian ...

As students return to school, one patterned textile now ... secular schools worldwide incorporating plaid into uniforms, from Mexico to Japan to Australia. But how did a cloth like tartan, once ...