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 ...

The Randoseru Association says the tradition of the Japanese school bag started at an educational institute in Tokyo called Gakushuin, founded in 1877. The institute was founded on an ideal of ...

Japanese schools have long been notorious ... with children required to wear a uniform, all have the same school bags and identical colour and style of hair,” she said. “That was more than ...

carries a backpack instead of a Randoseru (a sturdy Japanese school bag) that would instantly mark her as Japanese. A 44-year-old Japanese man, who lives in Beijing with his Chinese wife and 9 ...

are written on this bright red paper bag They're called Fukubukuro - and at the start of each new year, thousands of people in Japan queue up for hours to get their hands on them. These "lucky ...

A Journalist from Nikkei FinTech says Japan will likely introduce a central bank digital currency (CBDC) around 2030. The ...

A year has passed since Japan introduced mandatory charges to customers for each single-use plastic bag taken from retail stores. The ratio of shoppers who decline plastic bags at stores has risen ...

A 10-year-old Japanese student has died one day after he was stabbed near his school in southern China. The boy, who was enrolled at the Shenzhen Japanese School, succumbed to his injuries early ...

The southern city of Shenzhen has a large Japanese expatriate community A 10-year-old Japanese student has died one day after he was stabbed near his school in southern China. The boy, who was ...

Officials in Tokyo said Thursday that a 10-year-old Japanese student attending a Japanese school in southern China who was ...

A trio of Japanese energy firms are carrying out a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the Tomakomai area of Hokkaido, Japan. Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd. (JAPEX), Idemitsu Kosan Co., ...

(Photo by Alessandro Di Ciommo/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Japan is set to criminalize the recreational use of cannabis while legalizing medical use. The decision, announced last week, will take ...