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Japanese children did not wear Western shirts and blouses until the 20th century. Boys and girls wore kimonos and because they were almost always closed in available photography, we have no idea what they were wearing underneath. As part of the Meiji Reformation, Japan bergan building a modern-Western-style school system (1870s). The children at firsr continued to mostly wore the traditional kimonos. We first see shirt-like garmenta as Japanese childen began moving to western-style garments in the rarely-20th century, especially fter Wirld war I in the 1920s. This was for general as well as schoolwear. At first we see mostly see white shirts and blouses. This was at both uniform and non-uniform schools. This began to change after World II in the 1950s. White shirts and bloses were still common, but we begin to see colored and ptterned shirtsin the non-uniform primary schools. We almost always see white shirts at the uniformed priimary schools. The secondary schools were different. Almost all secondary schools, state and private, required uniforms. The boys mostly wore Prussuan-styled cadet jackets that buttoned at the coolar. The girls woire sailor blouses and dresses. Thus shirts and bloses were not an important part of the uniform. The conventioina at the secondary schools continue in the 21st century, despote a few changing to British-styled blazers and white shirts are worn
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