A rehearsal by the Japanese all-female Takarazuka Revue in Taipei on Oct. 19, 2018, on the eve of its tour in Taiwan. (Kyodo)

KOBE - The school training teenage girls to become actresses in the Takarazuka Revue, Japan's all-female musical theater, has abolished irrational rules observed for decades by students, including bowing to a train that might be carrying a senior-class student, school officials said Saturday.