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Sailor style (left) and western-style (right) Japanese school uniforms have distinctive features, but both are equally popular. Wolfgang Kaehler/Satoshi-K/Getty Images ...

At a repurposed school about 60 km (37 miles) southeast of Tokyo, participants pay about 35,000 yen ($245) to dress in classic Japanese school uniforms and attend calligraphy and other lessons.

Reuters. Tourists from abroad wearing sport uniforms play "beanbag toss" during sports class, while taking part in a Japanese high school experience in Kimitsu, Chiba prefecture, Japan April 23, 2025.

At a repurposed school about 60 km (37 miles) southeast of Tokyo, participants pay about 35,000 yen ($245) to dress in classic Japanese school uniforms and attend calligraphy and other lessons.