Figure 1.--This primary (elelentary) school had a gakuran uniform for the bnoys. We think in ythe 1960s. I at first thiught the girls erte probanly sisters tagging along. But if you look closely there are quite a number of girls, all uniformed in a gakuran-like outfit. So this was probably a coed school. We think this is probably a private school, but most private schools at this time were single gender scgools. A HBC reader has sent us a more detailed discussion of this image. .

We see gakuran uniforms at all kinds of schools, both private and state as well as primary and secondary. Japan had no national regulations on unifirms. As farvas we can tell, schoolwear and uniforms were decided by the induvidual school. Thus we see these jackets at a variety of schools. Mostly we see them at public (state) middlle and secondary schools. They are by far the most common outfits at secondary schools. While not universal at secondary schools they appear to be worn at most. While the blazer is a post-World War II inovation in Japanese schoolwear, these style jackets were worn before the War. We see a few state primary schools with these uniforms, but not very many. We also see them at private schools, including private primary schools. The same basuc jacket is worn at both primary and secondary schools. The primary difference between ptimaru=y and secondary schools is the oants, The jackets are vasucalkly the same, alyjough the primary biys often werar short oants wjole the secondary boys wear long pants.

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