Guards protect Tokyo’s designer uniform pupils

Private security guards have been hired to protect pupils at a Tokyo school that recently unveiled bespoke £500 Armani uniforms, after reports they were being harassed in the street.

Toshitsugu Wada, the principal of Taimei Elementary School in Ginza, apologised to parents after pupils wearing the uniform were said to be pinched and teased by passers-by.

The local government authority has now introduced extra police patrols in the area and hired four guards from a private security firm to protect pupils walking to and from school.