The KuToo campaign quickly won support from nearly 19,000 people online after it was launched by actress and freelance writer Yumi Ishikawa.
A ministry official who met her"was a woman and sympathetic to our petition ... and told us that this is the first time voices of this kind reached the ministry," said Ishikawa, adding that the petition was"the first step forward" towards achieving their goal.Ishikawa was prompted to launch the campaign after a tweet she posted earlier this year complaining about being required to wear heels for a hotel job went viral.
"As I realised that so many people face the same problem, I decided to launch the campaign," she said of #KuToo, which comes hot on the heels of the global anti-harassment campaign #MeToo. Some campaigners have compared high heels to foot-binding, while others have called for all workplace dress codes in Japan, such as the near-total donning of business suits for men, to be relaxed.
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