Blonde in Japan
 

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Maybe 100 years ago, but nowadays it's not that big a deal.

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The exchange student that went to my old high chool once said something about blond hair in Japan. I forgot what he said, but I think it was something claiming people with blond hair are thought of as super beautiful or something like that, don't hold it to me though this was like 3 years ago and I bearly remember.

LoL I don't like the look of this stuff and if this is true it means much attention so I have to wear a hat anyway.
Im going to japan someday. I don't want much attention because I didn't find about blonde here in japan or asia so I made a thread.

I have red hair and freckles and after spending three weeks in Tokyo maybe 5 people gave me an extended stare. No one else batted an eyelid, you'll be fine.

My hair is salt and pepper and I'm just glad to still have it. My grand dad was a red head, of Irish decent, with the stereotypical temper to go with it. He lost his hair time he was 27. :eek:

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I lived in Japan, and I have a shaved head which is quite unusual there (except for monks of course!), so I did get several stares, but in the more touristy areas nobody bats an eyelid. Where I lived, it just made me mroe recognisable so people remembered me!

Na, don`t worry about it.

I hear many Japanese people would love to have blond hair. :)

There are more foreigners in Japan than you might think. People there are used to the idea and not interested in blonde hair at all. If they do look at you it won't be because of your hair. If you are in an area like Harajuku or Shibuya you'll find that a lot of Japanese people there have blonde hair anyway. I have dark blonde hair and have lived in Tokyo for 12 years, and believe me, no-one cares about my hair. If I do get a second look it is usually because of my height (5'9", 175cm) as I'm taller than the average Japanese woman, and people often look to see if I'm wearing high heels :)

You'd probs get the same "dude needs a haircut" look that you'd get anywhere else.

I totally agree that you shouldn't get any problems :D

When I went to japan, my host family invited their piano teacher over to meet me and the first thing she did when she saw me was rub my hair and tell me I was blonde to test my japanese XD

But she was pretty quirky, so I don't think you have anything to worry about :)

If you're a gaijin(foreigner), your gonna get stared at anyway.
I'd wear that hat though.
You are going to be going to one the most homogeneous societies in the world, and the older generations consider young people who dye their hair blond and brown to be "delinquents" (although I understand that that those feelings are subsiding somewhat in the major cities.)
You don't have to scurry around hiding your hair, just know that you WILL get some attention no matter what.

If you ever see Fruits magazine there are quite a number of girls that have their hair dyed blonde.

Caucasian people are not as unusual in Japan as you may think. No-one is going to stare at you just because you have blonde hair, it is just not interesting enough to any Japanese person. If you have a blonde mohawk, then maybe.