The judges also felt it would help children become “more courageous”, as randoseru (sturdy backpacks with rounded lids like these) are commonly used by elementary school children in Japan. Randoseru ...

The life-preserving backpack is the brainchild of newspaper delivery agent Joji Shimizu who was left dumbfounded by the loss of life at a public elementary school in northeastern Japan as a ...

trends in colors for school backpacks worn by students entering elementary school in Japan are changing, a survey by a trade industry association based in the capital's Taito Ward has shown.

24 at a municipal junior high school here is believed to have smuggled the knife into the school in a backpack. Aichi prefectural police sent the student, who is in his third year at the school ...