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  • Japan Bans Judo Kids with Thin Eyebrows [REASON: it causes displeasure]

    07/13/2002 10:58:28 PM PDT · by Silly · 37 replies · 272+ views
    TOKYO (Reuters) - Six Japanese high school students were ejected from a judo tournament to teach them a lesson after they shaved their eyebrows to a fashionable but intimidating thin line. Kyodo news agency, quoting organizers Saturday, said the six had been disqualified from a judo tournament in Utsunomiya, north of Tokyo, on the grounds that the current Japanese teenage fad gave them an unfair advantage. "We have banned thin eyebrows because they are intimidating to opponents and cause displeasure," Tatsuo Kakizaki, an tournament organizer, was quoted as saying. "We disqualified them as a lesson, to teach them the importance...