{"id":53932,"date":"2023-03-30T15:03:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T06:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/30\/japan-school-stirs-debate-over-hairstyle-rules-after-boy-with-cornrows-separated-from-class"},"modified":"2023-03-30T15:03:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T06:03:23","slug":"japan-school-stirs-debate-over-hairstyle-rules-after-boy-with-cornrows-separated-from-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53932","title":{"rendered":"Japan school stirs debate over hairstyle rules after boy with cornrows separated from class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I felt like I was being told, \u201cThis is not your special day\u201d,\u2019 says 18-year-old of graduation ceremony<\/p>\n<p>Strict rules on hairstyles at schools in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> have attracted criticism after a mixed-race teenager was separated from other students at their graduation ceremony because he had plaited his hair into cornrows to pay tribute to his Black heritage.<\/p>\n<p>The student, who has not been named, was made to sit alone at the back of the hall during a graduation ceremony at his school in Himeji, western Japan, and told not to stand and respond when his name was called out.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/30\/japan-school-stirs-debate-over-hairstyle-rules-after-boy-with-cornrows-separated-from-class\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I felt like I was being told, \u201cThis is not your special day\u201d,\u2019 says 18-year-old of graduation ceremonyStrict rules on hairstyles at schools in Japan have attracted criticism after a mixed-race teenager was separated from other students at their gradua&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53933,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53932\/revisions\/53933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}