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 ...

Teachers at a school in southern Japan are being mocked and condemned after a 14-year-old girl was punished for ... all have the same school bags and identical colour and style of hair,” she ...

HAMAMATSU--An unusual collaboration between a newspaper delivery shop and an eyewear accessory company here led to the development of "randoseru" school backpacks ... Japan as a result of the ...

IN Japan, cultural expectations are repeatedly drilled into children at school and at home, with peer pressure playing as powerful a role as any particular authority or law. On the surface ...

restaurants in Japan generally don’t provide doggie bags. In the end, my friend surreptitiously slipped his leftover hunk of meat into a plastic bag he happened to have on him, which he then stuffed ...

The Fukushima nuclear disaster, which began on March 11, 2011, is regarded as the worst nuclear incident since the Chernobyl disaster as it displaced more than 160,000 people ...

On July 1, Japan joined a growing list of countries to implement a mandatory plastic bag surcharge. It's part of a national effort to reduce plastic waste in a country that the U.N. says has the ...

The 54-year-old’s death was confirmed by ... the attacker with the help of an umbrella and a bag, it said. The school bus ...

If your kids are anything like mine, they do not handle their backpacks delicately. Their bags are stuffed into cubbies or lockers, discarded on the pavement at the playground after school ...

have arrested a 51-year-old man on suspicion of robbery after he stole a 23-year-old woman’s eco-bag containing her wallet, smartphone and shopping items. The incident occurred at around 8:50 p.m. on ...

Longchamp's Le Pliage tote has become the go-to bag for college and high-school students ... "Everybody wants to give off old-money vibes nowadays. College students want to look cute, but classy ...