” her straight, black locks “
Sure looks brown to me which means it is dyed which most Japanese do these days . Once girls graduate from high school the first thing they do is change their hair color from black to whatever . I dig the natural black myself .
Grew up with blonde blue or green eyed girls. Went to Asia and fell in love with dark hair and dark eyes. Prior to going overseas, I was in AZ and CA and there were a lot of bleached blondes. Natural long black hair just looked so beautiful. That became a preference for me. I did date a girl with long straight natural blonde hair in in the 70s. She had her hair cut in some 80s style and never looked the same. The lady in the article is correct, some men do like long straight natural hair.