By ANANDA KOKUMAI/ Staff Writer
January 20, 2020 at 14:15 JST
Public junior high schools in Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward last spring started allowing students to freely choose their uniforms from among a pair of pants, a skirt and a blazer. The schools have replaced old pamphlets, top, which are binary gender-specific, with new ones, bottom, that do not specify gender. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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