Category 5: Attitude.

Judges should make sure that all contestants are properly dressed; skirts the proper length, buttons buttoned, proper ties, and nice black hair.

Nice black hair?

Apparently, when judging a school-wide chorus contest, hair must be taken into account. Having it combed right just isn't enough anymore, it must also be jet black, or else.

Though it's not a tough requirement to satisfy. Barring some strange anomaly, everyone in Japan is born with hair the same color as a coal miner's face.

The secret to the consistently black hair, however, isn't genetic, but rather, a byproduct of a diet rich in food from the bottom of the ocean.

Specifically, seaweed.

At least, that's what I was told by a charcoal headed young man as I was hungrily gulping down a mouthful of the stuff.

I wonder what I would have to eat to turn my children's hair green?