Survey reveals 11 percent of Japanese firms have high-heel height rule www.japantimes.co.jp

In an apparently discriminatory practice, 11.1 percent of companies in Japan have in-house rules on the height of the heel of pumps worn by female employees at the workplace, a survey by the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or Rengo, has revealed.
The survey results came at a time when the #KuToo campaign opposing companies forcing female workers to wear high heels is spreading in the country.
The workplace practice is widely viewed as amounting to sexual discrimination.
KuToo is a play on two Japanese words, kutsu and kutsū, which mean shoes and pain, respectively.
In the survey, 11.1 percent said male workers are required to wear suits, and 8.6 percent said it is mandatory for female workers to apply makeup.