Dress code
Japan has extremely high customer service standards and a conservative and suitably businesslike standard of dress and grooming is required of all instructors at all times while on company premises, including when entering and leaving.
Female instructors
✓ Pressed collared shirt with sleeves, suit jacket*, pressed business skirt or trousers, plain stockings or socks, business shoes OR pressed collarless business top, suit jacket**, pressed business skirt or trousers, plain stockings or socks, business shoes ✓ Natural hair color and nail color ✓ Neat grooming ✓ High standard of personal hygiene ✓ Name badge X No excessive jewelry, make-up or perfume X No unnatural hair colors or unusual hairstyles X No visible piercings other than earlobes X No visible tattoos X No sweaters without a suit jacket worn on top, and sweaters must be plain and businesslike in dark or neutral colors * Preferred ** Required
Male instructors
✓ Knotted tie, suit jacket*, pressed business shirt, pressed business trousers, and business shoes ✓ Short, neat hairstyle** ✓ Clean-shaven*** and neatly groomed ✓ High standard of personal hygiene ✓ Name badge X No unnatural hair colors X No unshaven one-day growth X No visible piercings or tattoos X No shirt buttons undone X No sweaters without a suit jacket worn on top, and sweaters must be plain and businesslike in dark or neutral colors.
* Preferred ** long hair must be neatly tied back *** A short, neatly-trimmed beard is permitted, but growing a beard is not.