Actress Yumi Ishikawa raised opposition online last year to requiring women to wear high heels ... The name is also a play on the Japanese words for shoes, “kutsu,” and pain, also “kutsu.” ...

values the women's appearance as being feminine ... The slogan plays on the Japanese words for shoes "kutsu" and pain "kutsuu". Campaigners say that wearing high heels is seen as obligatory ...

A Japanese minister has said it is "necessary ... norm so that it won't be considered to be bad manners when women wear flat shoes like men," Ms Ishikawa said. Petitions against high heels ...