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The Fascinating Culture Behind Japanese School Uniforms

pingmag.jp — This article offers some fascinating details in fashion and the social performance that accompanies the traditional Japanese school uniform and shows how it has developed beyond the schoolyard and into Japanese pop culture.

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  • freedomwv, on 04/04/2008, -7/+5This is one of the things that are a stable of Japanese culture. Those girls in sailor uniforms are all over the place in Tokyo. You usually start seeming around noon. From noon until about nine they are hanging out in just about all sections of Tokyo.
    • Y0tsuya, on 04/04/2008, -2/+1Never did like the look of sailor uniforms. Always felt odd to see a girl wearing one. I think blazers look better, has a sense of purpose.
      • Pixelante, on 04/04/2008, -2/+0Yeah, but 'Sailor Moon' sounds better than 'Blazer Moon'. Case closed.
        • Excen, on 04/04/2008, -0/+0Says the guy that´s never smoked plant-based drugs with a cosplay fangirl, let alone put his peñoño inside her culo, puto.
          • Pixelante, on 04/04/2008, -0/+0Since when do you need to stone yourself and your partner with pot in order to engage in anal sex with her?
    • PaulOwen, on 04/04/2008, -2/+4Yeah, and erm they see you hanging around, watching them.

      They told me to tell you they don't like it and that the police are on to you.
      • freedomwv, on 04/04/2008, -1/+1I didn`t it mean it like that *****. I am not some kind of perv. Damn!
    • Hodor, on 04/04/2008, -0/+1think you mean "a staple of Japanese culture"
    • ltchimpo, on 04/04/2008, -0/+1don't say, "they"
  • WordsnCollision, on 04/04/2008, -7/+22...not to mention Japanese perv culture, not that there's anything wrong with that. Wait a minute, there IS something wrong with that!
    • freedomwv, on 04/04/2008, -11/+8Pervs are a big problem in Japan. I think that Japan has the world largest collection of perverts on the planet.
      • theaceoffire, on 04/04/2008, -7/+2They have different concepts of sexuality.
        For example, you can have sex with someone else, as long as you pay with money (not love).
        However, they are much more restrictive when it comes to violence than we are.
        • topace3000, on 04/04/2008, -2/+3Your insight into sexual culture is deeply flawed. Poor work.
      • smacksaw, on 04/04/2008, -0/+14I don't think the Japanese are any more perverted than anyone else, they're just not in denial about it. They're in denial about tons of other stuff. But who is it a problem for in Japan? Not for the Japanese. You then? You're a gaijin. Keep your place.
        • freedomwv, on 04/04/2008, -2/+1NO one tells me to keep my place. I do what I want and say what I want.
          • smacksaw, on 04/04/2008, -1/+2Ok Cartman.

            You must go over in Japan like a ton of lead bricks. Go ahead and keep speaking for them and people like my wife (who is Japanese) will keep rolling their eyes at people like you. How does it feel to know they're polite to you in person, but talk the nastiest ***** about you when you're not there? Or do you believe they actually like you? Have you figured out that you'll never know if they like you or just put up with you?

            I can guarantee you this: when you speak for them, especially about something you don't understand...well, you can be happy that you're "free" to do whatever you want, but you're also free to be universally reviled.
      • cquinnd, on 04/04/2008, -0/+5Have you checked out sexual fetishes from the rest of the world? The only difference with the japanese is they managed to market theirs better.
    • ltchimpo, on 04/04/2008, -0/+2wait, you're telling me viewing full color bondage-Bukkake spreads on the subway to work is... wrong?
  • weister42, on 04/04/2008, -2/+12If you hand a uniform like that to a typical girl in the US she'd probably think you're up to some kinky *****, not saying there's anything wrong with that.
  • fxu1989, on 04/04/2008, -14/+2Off topic, but I heard the japanese birth rate is down because girls are into Man-boy/boy-boy (yaoi) relations, and the guys are gays.

    • Y0tsuya, on 04/04/2008, -0/+3Nah they only look gay. It's the whole hair-band + metrosexual thing. Same in Korea.
    • cquinnd, on 04/04/2008, -0/+1The birth rate has been down a lot longer than the popularity of those stories would warrant.
      It's credited more to the educational and social systems that pushed people to consider their careers and getting into the right schools and jobs more important than "dropping out" to have a family.
  • fxu1989, on 04/04/2008, -15/+2Off topic, but I heard the japanese birth rate is down because girls are into Man-boy/boy-boy (yaoi) relations, and the guys are gays.

    I know I read an article about it, but I can't find it ... links please ? :x
  • msaleem, on 04/04/2008, -3/+6Fascinating is precisely the right adjective. I can't get enough of Japanese culture.
  • billlyboobs34, on 04/04/2008, -4/+2With those school girl outfits I can take care of that Japanese shrinking birth rate problem... What sucks is that they frown upon foreigners.
    • CatsAreGods, on 04/04/2008, -1/+1A frown is a smile turned upside down... :-)
    • freedomwv, on 04/04/2008, -1/+1They don`t frown on foreigners dating or even just having sex with the women. Hell, I am married to a Japanese girl and I live in Tokyo.
  • iYouTube, on 04/04/2008, -5/+0It looks nice.
    For more:
    http://www.iyoutube.net/20080403/The_Love_Guru_Tra ...
  • markusr895, on 04/04/2008, -2/+0I want a set of those pigtails
  • heyblue, on 04/04/2008, -5/+1Buried for zero anime illustrations.
    • cquinnd, on 04/04/2008, -0/+1You didn't notice the anime influences in the article? Bad Otaku.
  • tikiman453, on 04/04/2008, -1/+3Fascinating!
  • Jovensdesciple, on 04/04/2008, -9/+2Japanese dudes like porn and they dress their children like pornstars, should that really be considered culture?
    • Y0tsuya, on 04/04/2008, -1/+6Sailor uniforms = porn star attire? You have problems dude. May want to talk to a shrink.
    • cquinnd, on 04/04/2008, -1/+2The US is the country with the child beauty pageants.
      • Jovensdesciple, on 04/04/2008, -2/+1What's your point?? Don't you understand that making your daughters dress like they're whores is bad no matter what country you live in? Stop dressing your daughters like whores and treating them like they only mean something because of the genes you gave them and maybe they won't get ***** like whores and turn out to be terrible rotton humans like your parents hoped you wouldn't be but were wrong about. Joven Akbarr!
  • A11YND, on 04/04/2008, -3/+3A nice article about very interesting topic..
    a very sexy topic.. so sexy..
  • smacksaw, on 04/04/2008, -2/+10I think it's pretty funny that a discussion about uniforms has turned into something about sex. The author didn't mention that. And yet people making a big deal about the sexual aspect are the ones who inserted it into this discussion.

    My wife went to school in Tokyo, she wore a uniform, and she is the first to say that Westerners are WAY more obsessed with sex than the Japanese are. Point proven quite clearly in the comments in this submission. Whenever people mention the uniforms and sex she just rolls her eyes.
    • sinurgy, on 04/04/2008, -0/+11You ever have her throw on the 'ol uniform every once in awhile? *elbow nudge* Ehhhh?!
      • Y0tsuya, on 04/04/2008, -1/+4That reminds me of a Maison Ikkokku episode.
      • smacksaw, on 04/04/2008, -0/+1Well she moved to Canada when she was 9, so even if she could fit in it...
    • cquinnd, on 04/04/2008, -0/+6Don't we have a similar fantasy with Catholic School Girls? Uniforms in general tended to enhance attractiveness.
  • bosssmiley, on 04/04/2008, -0/+2"How does I copypasta St. Trinians?" - Japan
  • waydee, on 04/04/2008, -0/+1Doesn't seem that odd to me, all the schools around here make students wear uniform too. Of course, different styles but same deal.
    If we're going to talk sex then my opinion is that the Japanese 'sailor' uniform covers too much flesh and the high cut top stops the girls from getting slutty! I remember girls at my school would push it as far as they could with unbuttoned shirts, low tied ties, hitch up the skirt etc - anything they could do to personalise and sluttify their uniform.
  • iXneonXi, on 04/04/2008, -4/+1natsu fuku ga ii no desu, kyawaii!
    • Pixelante, on 04/04/2008, -0/+0Rocketto punch!
    • TheKeithD, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1Did somebody just say weeaboo? Because I think I just heard someone say weeaboo.
  • momsshizzle, on 04/04/2008, -0/+7Buried for not having sexy uniform pics in the article.
  • troubleshot, on 04/04/2008, -3/+1Genki desu!
  • TheKappa, on 04/05/2008, -0/+2Buried for a lack of decent pictures of Japanese girls in their school uniforms.
  • dcmbrskies, on 04/06/2008, -0/+0I wish we had to wear them.
    they are very cute.


    I adore Japanese culture and their ability to make everything fashionable.
  • vanityneverlies, on 04/08/2008, -0/+1I want one!!!!!
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