"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 ...

(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 ...

They said they were jealous that Japanese girls could wear such cute school uniforms. In Thailand, since they sell Japanese magazines translated into Thai, they know of Japanese fashion and told me ...

At a repurposed school about 60 km (37 miles) southeast of Tokyo, participants pay about 35,000 yen ($245) to dress in classic Japanese school uniforms and attend calligraphy and other lessons.

Such school uniforms have become more common across Japan in recent years. Local students had requested that they wanted uniform choices other than skirts since they get cold in the winter and ...

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 ...

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).

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 ...