Comments on: Japan’s brown haired plague

By: 藤島明輝子

藤島明輝子 — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:24:44 +0000

To turn black hair brown, you can use a blonde, but not a true blond, you want a blond with more brown to it, it’s possible but very complicated to do, and I wouldn’t recommend doing it yourself. Seek a professional, as if you get the wrong shade of blonde you will go red… haha!

By: xorsyst

xorsyst — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:39:15 +0000

He’s unique! That’s a good thing to me.

By: 藤島明輝子

藤島明輝子 — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:59:56 +0000

I am a Japanese with dark brown hair, my son he has very light brown hair, with bits of red in it… so I guess he’s even MORE weird because of the red? o__O

By: Hage

Hage — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:28:04 +0000

When I worked on the JET program a 2nd year junior high student in one of my schools had natural brown hair and the teachers would forcibly dye her hair black in the nurses office.

They would take 2 or 3 teachers and 1-2 to hold her arms behind her back and 1 to rub the dye in her head… One of the more disturbing things that I saw and can’t imagine the outrage that would occur if someone ever tries to do this to my daughter.

The reason given to me was that, even though her color was natural it could incite others to dye their hair. Likewise I shave my head and was told when I first started that I would have to grow my hair out or be fired. I told them to fire me and they backed off, but this girl never had a chance to tell them no.

By: xorsyst

xorsyst — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:17:22 +0000

@Tom: I definitely agree with that.

@Vera: A lot of the people with natural brown hair may really look black with certain lighting. So rather than try to hunt down a natural brown haired person (which seems next to impossible), i went with showing the styles that traditionally frowned upon and started the whole debate.

By: Vera

Vera — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:06:02 +0000

Personally, Japanese people look better with black hair. Other colors of hair don’t suit them. I am not Japanese by the way.

By the way, the Japanese people on this article don’t seem to have natural brown hair.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:58:13 +0000

I think that people always want what they don’t have. If they’re short: they want to be tall. If they have white skin:they get tan. This isn’t as bad as Japanese bleaching their hair–that’s a little freaky.

By: Jamaipanese

Jamaipanese — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:58:09 +0000

brown, black, pink, blue…doesn’t matter to me really

By: Moses

Moses — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:59:41 +0000

I personally think the hair colors look beautiful and I can’t really understand why a Japanese person would want to get rid of it. Japan should really just stop with the homogenious bull and accept that there are different types of people in their country. Foreigners included.

By: Jeff Staple

Jeff Staple — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:58:05 +0000

What’s that famous Japanese saying about comforming? “The nail that stands up gets hammered down”? Stories like this always remind me of that. =(

I too like the look of brown hair on Japanese. the chappatsu somehow makes them look more exotic.