Japan’s health minister claims that workplaces that require women to wear high heel shoes are “necessary and appropriate” amid a petition with nearly 20,000 signatures against the practice. Takumi ...

Tokyo -- Japanese women are saying, "No," to high heels in what's been dubbed the #KuToo movement, a play on the words for "shoes" and "agony" and an allusion to the #MeToo hashtag. The #MeToo ...

A controversy surrounding women being forced to wear high heels at work has exploded into a new #KuToo protest movement. An online petition presented to the Ministry of Health in early June collected ...

More than 19,000 people have signed an online petition calling on Japan to enact a law to stop companies from being able to force female employees to wear high heels. But after the petition was ...

Days after thousands of people signed a petition requesting employers to ban dress codes forcing women to wear high heels, Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare's equal employment opportunity ...

A complaint on Twitter by a Japanese writer has snowballed into a globally-recognized hashtag, an online petition and, most recently, a parliamentary debate in Japan, all while shining a light on ...

A Japanese woman wants companies to stop making high heels mandatory for women at work. Yumi Ishikawa, an actress and writer, launched a Change.org petition urging her government to ban companies from ...