An 18-year-old Japanese girl is suing her local government after her school made her repeatedly dye her naturally-brown hair black, media reports say.
据媒体报道，一名18岁的日本女孩正在起诉当地政府，原因是她所在的学校曾多次让她把自己天生的棕色头发染成黑色。
The girl says she was told she would have to leave the high school near Osaka if she did not comply with a rule requiring students' hair to be black.
这名女孩表示，她被告知，如果她不遵守把头发染成黑色的学校规定，就要被迫离开这所位于大阪附近的高中。
It is being reported that she says the dye damaged her hair and her scalp.
报道称，该女孩表示，染发剂严重损坏了她的头发和头皮。
Kaifukan high school said its policy was to ban students from dyeing or bleaching hair.
怀风馆高中称，他们的规定是为了禁止学生染发或漂白头发。
The school's instruction to the girl to dye her hair was reportedly despite her mother telling the school that she was born with brownish hair.
据报道，尽管该学生的母亲之前告诉过学校，女儿的头发天生就是棕色的，但学校还是要求她把头发染成黑色。

The girl is said to be asking for $19,300 in damages. Local media say that Osaka prefecture is asking the court to reject the claim.
据悉，这名女孩要求校方赔偿1.93万美元。据当地媒体报道，大阪府要求法院驳回这一诉讼。
Kaifukan's headteacher Masahiko Takahashi did not comment on the lawsuit.
而怀风馆高中的校长高桥雅彦并没有对此诉讼做出回应。
Many Japanese schools have strict rules about appearance, including hair colour, the use of make up and the length of skirts.
日本许多学校对学生的仪容仪表，包括头发的颜色、化妆和裙子的长度都有严格的规定。
Earlier this year a survey by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper found that nearly 60% of high schools in the capital Tokyo asked students with light-coloured hair for proof that this was natural, for example by providing photographs of them as infants.
《朝日新闻》今年早些时候的一项调查发现，东京近60%的高中都要求头发是浅色的学生提供证据--比如给学校提供自己婴儿时期的照片，来证明自己头发的颜色是天生的。