TheTokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education (東京都教育委員会Tōkyō-to Kyōiku Iinkai) is theboard of education inTokyo,Japan. The board directly manages most of thepublichigh schools in all 23special wards, theWestern Tokyo, and allislands underTokyo'sjurisdiction.
In 2019, policies requiring students who do not naturally have black hair to dye it as such were struck down.[1] In 2017, as stated by survey results, 57% of the state-operated schools in the metropolis required students who did not have hair naturally colored black to submit documents proving so.[2] TheJapanese Communist Party criticized the so-called hair color code and measures requiring parents to prove hair color.[3]



