Tokyo — Japan’s health minister, in response to a petition seeking a ban on requiring women to wear high heels at work, said that such dress code expectations are “necessary and appropriate” in the workplace.
Health minister Takumi Nemoto responded on Wednesday to an online campaign gaining attention in Japan under the hashtag #KuToo, a play on the Japanese words for shoe, kutsu, and pain, kutsuu...
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