Toride Little Senior Director Manabu Ishizaki says, “It doesn’t matter if you have a buzz cut or long hair.”
“The 17th All Japan Junior High School Baseball Championship Giants Cup” where 5 junior high school baseball teams gather together. There are various hairstyles depending on the group and team, such as sports cropping and long hair that flutters in the wind, following the trend of “cutting off the buzz” in high school baseball.
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About three years ago, Shizuoka Susono Little Senior gave up his buzz cut and allowed him to freely change his hairstyle. Coach Hironori Sato changed his policy, saying, “There are more and more kids who don’t want to play baseball if they shave their heads. “When I was active, I had a buzz cut, and I had a feeling that I would never lose to a school with long hair, but now I don’t have anything in particular.” Some players voluntarily cut their hair short, but it is said that there are overwhelmingly many players with long hair.
Musashi Fuchu Little Senior (Tokyo) has also been liberalized three years ago, and now it is half-cut and half-haired. Director Noriteru Ogawa said, “We don’t force children to wear their hairstyles. The number of children who grow their hair out has increased. However, we instruct them not to be sloppy when playing sports.” Captain Genta Otori, an infielder, said, “I don’t think hairstyles have anything to do with baseball. However, I think there’s still a tendency to be criticized if you grow your hair long, so you have to behave properly and be polite.” By doing so, he is trying to act consciously.
Toride Little Senior (Ibaraki) and Takasaki Chuo Boys (Gunma) did not set rules for hairstyles from the beginning. Manabu Ishizaki, Toride’s manager, said, “Ever since I was a student, I thought that it didn’t matter if I shaved my head or had long hair. That’s why I’ve been free since I started my own team. There are families who have decided to do so, so there are many people with long hair, but there are many who have long hair.”
Toru Kuramata, the manager of the Takasaki Chuo Boys, agrees, saying, “We don’t play baseball with hairstyles. If the hairstyle is free from the beginning, there is no objection from the parents, and the players can choose their hairstyle without worrying about it.
Some teams face the players’ voluntary “five-rin cutting”
Aomori Yamada Little Senior is rare among junior high school teams these days, and almost all of them are facing the Giants Cup with five-rin cuts. Director Jun Chujo commented, “In order to compete against high-potential players from the Kanto and Kansai regions, we value team power that is second to none, and as we master that, we’re all going to get our hairstyles together.” . It is said that the five-rin cutting was not specifically enforced, and that each individual did it voluntarily at the hotel.
In high school baseball, strong schools such as Tenri (Nara) and Sendai Ikuei (Miyagi) lifted the ban on long hair around the first half of the 1990s, but recently there has been a tendency to revert to short hair. On the other hand, the long hair of Keio (Kanagawa) attracted a lot of attention at Koshien this summer. Considering hairstyle as individuality, if everyone can freely choose short hair or long hair, it may help to reduce the population of baseball players.
(Katsuharu Uchida / Katsuharu Uchida)
2023-08-19 11:00:10
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