Japan (girls): First private school in Japan to replace the British school uniform with the...

...kimono for its school girls.  The kimono colors and artwork must be specially designed for and owned by the school and no other Japanese school be allowed to use its design.  The kimono design becomes part of the school’s unique public identity.  [Adopting the British school uniform sadly westernized Japan.  Additionally, the increase in appearances of kimonos will also help Japan’s tourism industry (thus why this challenge is located in the Entertainment category) by making its nation more unique, colorful, and beautiful.  As for kimonos being “very restrictive,” “taking too long to put on,” or being “impractical for daily use,” one should know that there are different levels of kimonos, from the numerous-layered ones worn by nobility to the simple ones worn by common folk.  It is the simpler ones worn by common folk which this challenge is referring to and which the Japanese girls wore daily for centuries before becoming westernized.]


Future Challenges:

1) First public school in Japan to replace the British school uniform with a kimono for its school girls.  The kimono colors and artwork are specially designed for each school and no other Japanese school is allowed to use its design.

2) First Japanese city to have its public transportation system allow school girls wearing their school kimonos to ride for free.

3) First Japanese town/city to require all school girls to wear a school kimono to government schools.

4) First Japanese city with a population of at least 100,000 to require all school girls to wear a school kimono to government schools.

5) First Japanese province to require all school girls to wear a school kimono to government schools.

6) First school kimono officially presented to, and approved by, the Emperor of Japan.

7) Third annual ceremony where all school kimonos from all over Japan are paraded through Tokyo to the Imperial Palace by each school’s top three female students from each of the school's grades (top academically); are officially presented to the Emperor of Japan; and where new or changed kimonos are approved (or not) by the Emperor of Japan.  This event is held after the school year so the top female students can be determined.  The parade route must be at least seven miles long.  The school banner preceding the school's girls must be carried by the school's two most-top-ranking female school administrators, who both wear kimonos in the school's design.  Each school must be assigned a number and this number displayed on the school's banner in a large gold circle so tourists who cannot read Japanese can enter the number into their smartphones to learn which school the girls parading behind the banner are from.   [This should be a very colorful, graceful, beautiful event for which both native Japanese and foreign tourists will love to watch and photograph.]

8) First TV documentary to chronicle kimono artists competing to design the kimonos for a school.

First radio talk show host in Japan to champion this challenge and:

9) Get the headmaster of a private school to come onto her/his show and officially announce that their school is doing the original challenge.

10) Get the headmasters of at least 10 private schools to individually come onto her/his show and officially announce that their schools are doing the original challenge.

11) Get the headmasters of at least 100 private school to individually come onto her/his show and officially announce that their schools are doing the original challenge.

12) Personally design a school kimono, get it accepted by a school as its kimono design, and get it approved by the Emperor of Japan.  The host must take and pass a lie detector test verifying that the host and the host alone designed the kimono.

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