Last summer, school swimwear provider Footmark released Japan’s first genderless, two-piece school swimsuits for adoption by schools. Three public junior high schools in Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures ...

The company says media coverage of the trial sales led to many inquiries not only from schools, but also from individuals. It made further improvements to the swimwear, including a twist to ...

(Mainichi/Tadashi Kako) KOBE -- With the start of the new school year in Japan, the problem of "heavy ... Footmark Corp., a manufacturer of school swimwear, of children in the first through ...