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Women across Japan fed up with to wear high-heeled shoes to work. One woman is so fed up that she a movement to the requirement for female employees to wear the shoes. The movement has the hashtag KuToo. This is a combination of the Japanese words "kutsu" (which shoe) and "kutsuu" (which is the Japanese word for pain). The movement was started by Japanese actress Yumi Ishikawa. She about her belief that employers in Japan should not female workers to wear high heels. Ms Ishikawa also an online petition. It asks Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare to employers from women to wear certain types of shoes.

Ishikawa's tweet is now across other parts of Asia. Many women in China and South Korea have started their own campaigns against to wear high heels. Ishikawa told TIME magazine: "I that if there are so many people who feel the same as me, why not some sort of movement." Many women supported Ishikawa on social media. They about sore feet, bleeding heels, back pain and other health issues. A visually impaired woman in her 20s who has to high heels at work said it is difficult for her to her balance and not over. A recent survey that over 70 per cent of women in Tokyo wear high heels to work at least once a week.