But the change has been criticised by former senior officers, who said cultural identity should not be “mixed with uniform”. Regulations for mess dress had previously required all officers to ...

Katsumoto Saotome, a Japanese writer who gathered the accounts of survivors of the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo in World War II to raise awareness of the massive civilian deaths and the importance of ...

“We emphasise again that the good, brave and hard-working colleagues we represent are the first to say that the very, very small minority of officers who are not fit to wear the uniform should ...

A uniform national minimum wage has been advocated mainly by Zenroren and the Japanese Communist Party, which closely works with the confederation, but the statements for a uniform rate are ...

Hon Capt Durdana Ansari, centre, wore a white sari beneath her mess jacket, with a shirt and bow tie – which is now mandated under the new uniform policy ...

Before the 1996 change, officers faced penalties for wearing kilts without permission, including being fined a round of port in the mess. The current policy maintains that all cultural dress ...