'Sexist' dress codes for Japanese women should be regarded as harassment, argue activists www.independent.co.uk

Japanese activists have called for discriminatory dress codes for women to be regarded as “power harassment".
Strict dress codes that require women in Japanese workplaces to dress in a certain manner, regardless of their wellbeing, have made headlines in recent months.
In June, it was reported that Japanese women were signing a petition to change the dress codes in some offices, which stipulated that they had to wear high heels for work.
However, the guidelines did not refer to the issue of female workers being ordered to dress in a certain way by their employers.
In June, Japan’s then-health and labour minister Takumi Nemoto describing the rule enforcing women to wear heels to work as “socially accepted” and “occupationally necessary”.