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 plucking her eyebrows. The student at a junior high ... same school bags and ...

The company used its accumulated technologies and high-performance ... a traditional school bag made of leather and other materials. Most elementary school children in Japan carry a randoseru ...

A municipal junior high school here has abolished a school rule restricting the timing of hydration during class, which was ...

Jay Nikolewski knew from an early age where he wanted to live. Nikolewski never felt comfortable growing up in America and ...

One year after their impressive first ascent of Ghamubar Zom V, Yudai Suzuki, Kei Narita, and Yuu Nishida of Japan returned ...

A 14-year-old Willis High School student was arrested Wednesday and charged with making a false alarm after shouting that he ...

Rice is in short supply at supermarkets in Japan. During late August, an NHK crew visited a store in Tokyo that usually sells about 10 varieties. But all it had in stock were 16 bags of a single ...

In Japan, more and more children are refusing ... the government announced that absenteeism among elementary and junior high school students had hit a record high, with 164,528 children absent ...

"And what better way than to do what we already do and that's to provide adventure bags to these kids that are returning back to Apalachee High School." Manus, whose older kids graduated from ...

In Japan, a dye job can do you in. According to a new survey published by Tokyo news outlet The Asahi Shimbun, 57% of public high schools ... during the most recent school year.

Among sports played in Japan, concussions occur most frequently in rugby football. Objective The purpose of this study was to investigate the status of concussions in high school rugby players, with ...