Sports Farewell to the buzz cut

[thomas]

The typical Japanese baseball buzz cut (スポーツ刈り sportsgari) seems to have become a thing of yesteryear.

According to a survey by the Japan High School Baseball Federation and other organisations, the number of Japanese high school baseball players with the buzz-cut hairstyle once typical of their clubs has declined rapidly.

High school baseball players in Japan sporting shaved heads are no longer the norm in a clean break from past tradition, according to a new study. In fact, nearly three-quarters of high school baseball teams no longer mandate the clean-shaven cut as an increasing number of schools break from the strict rules and discipline that were once a part of school athletic culture. Although 26.4 percent of high school baseball teams still instruct their members to shave their heads in 2023, the figure dropped sharply from the 76.8 percent in 2018. Compared with 2018, teams that allow students to have a crew cut increased from 8.9 to 14 percent while those with no haircut rules jumped to 59.3 percent, up from 14.2 percent.

Wataru Imoto, secretary general of the high school baseball federation, commented that he had also spoken with its president Kaoru Takara about the decrease in the number of players with shaved heads. He added that he thought diversity has increased and that "society has become a place where people are not limited to only one way of thinking.

Once standard Japan high school baseball club buzz cut in sharp decline: survey - The Mainichi

OSAKA -- The number of Japanese high school baseball players with the buzz cut hairstyle once typical of their clubs has declined rapidly, according t

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Survey: Strict hair rules being cut from high school baseball | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

Any DALL-E samples, @mdchachi?

 

[mdchachi]

Any DALL-E samples, @mdchachi?

I'm on vacation now but I'll try to remember to get back to this.