{"id":5389,"date":"2007-10-07T22:39:07","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T03:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/2007\/10\/controversy-over-the-origins-of-the-japanese-schoolgirl-sailor-uniform\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:10:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:10:09","slug":"controversy-over-the-origins-of-the-japanese-schoolgirl-sailor-uniform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2007\/10\/controversy-over-the-origins-of-the-japanese-schoolgirl-sailor-uniform\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversy over the origins of the Japanese schoolgirl sailor uniform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/fukuoka-jogakuin-1921.jpg' alt='fukuoka-jogakuin-1921.jpg' align=\"right\" \/>For years private girls academy Fukuoka Jogakuin in Kyushu has been credited with first introducing in 1921 the famous sailor-style uniform worn by so many middle-school Japanese girls.  However a recent investigation by a uniform manufacturer preparing an exhibit on the history of Japanese school uniforms has unearthed photographic evidence that Heian Jogakuin in Kyoto introduced a uniform with a sailor-style flap one year earlier, in 1920.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/heian-jogakuin-1920.jpg' alt='heian-jogakuin-1920.jpg' align=\"left\" \/> The debate has heated up, with both schools insisting that they were the first and that the other schools claim is invalid.  At a time when declining numbers of Japanese children are forcing private schools to become increasingly cuthroat in their competition for students, having an awesome uniform with a storied past is seen as a way to attract students.<\/p>\n<p>While it seems incontrovertable that the Kyoto school had the sailor flap first, their uniform was an unsightly, shapeless one-piece, where as the Fukuoka school&#8217;s uniform is clearly a precursor to the style still in use today, so maybe both schools have a reasonable claim.<\/p>\n<p>Source: \t<a href=\"http:\/\/mainichi.jp\/kansai\/news\/20071006k0000e040047000c.html\">\u30bb\u30fc\u30e9\u30fc\u670d\uff1a\u767a\u7965\u8ad6\u4e89\u3000\u5e73\u5b89\u5973\u5b66\u9662\uff36\uff33\u798f\u5ca1\u5973\u5b66\u9662\u3000\uff08\u6bce\u65e5\u65b0\u805e\uff09<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years private girls academy Fukuoka Jogakuin in Kyushu has been credited with first introducing in 1921 the famous sailor-style uniform worn by so many middle-school Japanese girls. However a recent investigation by a uniform manufacturer preparing an exhibit on the history of Japanese school uniforms has unearthed photographic evidence that Heian Jogakuin in Kyoto&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[173,118,63,201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural","category-education","category-japan","category-201"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-1oV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5705,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions\/5705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}