The issue regarding Taimei Elementary School's set of uniforms, priced at over 80,000 yen each including a hat and a bag, was also taken up by an opposition party lawmaker at a Diet session the same day.
The uniforms in question are school-selected attire and students are not obliged to wear them, the board said.
According to the board, the school principal told the board of its intention to change the design of the uniform last summer. The board instructed the school to decide the matter through sufficient talks with the PTA and local residents.
But five cases of complaints were raised from parents, who said there were no sufficient explanations. One said, "Why Armani?" according to the board.
The school has told the board, "From the intention to make a uniform as a 'school of Ginza,' we went around department stores and Armani accepted designing it as a result."
2 tropical storms are bearing down on Japan. Weather officials are calling on people to keep up on developments as they approach.
(NHK) 
Japanese police arrested a 19-year-old university freshman on Monday for allegedly making and possessing triacetate triperoxide, a lethal explosive known as TATP. (Jiji) 
20 million foreigners have visited Japan so far this year. It's the earliest in any year this milestone has been reached.
(NHK) 
The Japanese Olympic Committee said Monday that it has disqualified four basketball players from the ongoing 18th Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang, for allegedly violating the code of behavior at international multisport event. (Jiji) 
A team of Kyoto University said Monday it has applied for approval by the health ministry of a plan to infuse platelets made from induced pluripotent stem cells into a sufferer of a serious blood disease. (Jiji) 
A 14-year-old boy was arrested Sunday for allegedly stabbing a newspaper delivery woman in Osaka Prefecture in July, in what he claimed to be a random attack, police said. (Japan Today) 
Japan's education ministry is planning to place English-speaking artificial intelligence robots in schools to help children improve their English oral communication skills.
(NHK) 
Police in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, are deploying 3,000 officers to find a suspect who has been on the run for a week.
(NHK) 
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency suspended a final exercise in preparation for the removal of nuclear fuel assemblies from its Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor, which is in the process of being decommissioned, only hours after it was started on Sunday morning. (Jiji) 
About 2,000 people including children are testing their skills at scooping up goldfish in an annual event in Nara prefecture, western Japan.
(NHK)