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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Parke Heritage Middle School student faces expulsion and possible charges after he made comments about having a firearm in ...

In South Carolina’s Lowcountry, artists, farmers and designers are writing a new chapter in indigo’s rich and tangled history ...

Investigators say the student accused of killing four people in a Georgia high school shooting carried an assault rifle to ...

Monica Paulino, 31, told Newsweek: "I am pretty confident if it is authentic!" ...

According to an Elks press release, “This project was identified as a crucial need in our county by the lodge’s Youth ...

Hundreds of students are getting registered or preregistered to vote at Leo High School. Audrina Sinclair joined the voter excitement.