I find it extremely refreshing to see Japanese women as defense officials in their country's armed forces. Now we know Japan is more than just gravure models , fashionistas on Harajuku or "bento housewives". Here is the very informative video on Japanese women in various armed forces and various fancy uniforms. The background song accompanied by nice beats has been sung by Hikaru Utada.
This is a photo of Utada who is a Japanese-American singer-songwriter, arranger and record producer.
I did a double take when I came across this article that the hairstyles of the Japanese women track the ups and downs of the economy. But this is a fact that no economist can ever explain. And if you are an economist forecaster then beware 'coz the Japanese women are beginning to cut their hair and wear it shorter.
Over the past two decades, Kao, Japan's second-largest cosmetics firm, went to the streets of Tokyo and Osaka and conducted regular surveys of 1,000 women. And the results have been astonishing as well as eerily or funnily accurate.
Historically in Japan, women tended to wear longer hair until the bursting of the economic bubble in the early 1990s. And when the boom turned to bust, the streets of Tokyo took a drastic turn as far as the length of the hair went.
Beginning around 2002, longer hairstyles became common once again, coinciding with a mild economic recovery.And with the current economic crisis gathering more and more momentum, shorter styles are making a noticeable comeback.
Well, the things they dont teach you at Harvard Business School. ;-)
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