This means back-to-school shopping is in full swing and incoming first-graders are lining up at stores around the country to get their first backpacks. Japanese elementary school children in Japan ...

Japanese schoolchildren wear backpacks known as Randoseru. Though sturdily made, after the first 6 years they're no longer used. Nishikawa Masako takes such disused Randoseru brought in by clients ...

(At my kids’ elementary school, pickup happens in a big ... no huge gaps between your kid’s back and the bag. “I am obsessed with the Japanese children’s line Ocean & Ground that does ...

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IN Japan, cultural expectations are repeatedly drilled into children at school and at home ... On the surface, at least, that can help Japanese society run smoothly. During the coronavirus ...

“I won’t let my son wear his randoseru [backpack] to school from now on because people will know he is Japanese.” Said a 36-year-old mother of two young children, “We’ll try not to speak ...

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When Lebanon Special School District parent Logan Coble came to speak at the district's board of education meeting Thursday, he brought his daughter's unicorn backpack with him. "Last year, I ...

At least 20 people were killed and hundreds were wounded when walkie-talkies owned by Hezbollah members exploded across ...