That ethos is certainly evident in a new limited-edition backpack produced by Murase Kabanko, a Japanese bag manufacturer ...

In Murase Kabanko's meticulously crafted bag, the company has created an ode to historic samurai armor with scrap leather.

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 ...

HAMAMATSU--An unusual collaboration between a newspaper delivery shop and an eyewear accessory company here led to the development of "randoseru" school backpacks that can be used as makeshift ...

A Chinese woman who was a guide on the school bus was seriously injured in the attack and is in a coma. A male Chinese suspect has been detained. The Japanese mother and her preschool-aged child ...

In 2018, the number of school suicides was the highest in 30 years, with 332 cases. In 2016 the rising number of student suicides led the Japanese government to pass a suicide prevention act with ...

A 10-year-old student at a Japanese school in southern China has died one day after he was stabbed. The boy, who was enrolled ...

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 ...

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10 revealing facts about Japanese. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Japanese with audio.

An Oklahoma State sophomore spent some of the last weeks of his summer vacation giving away more than 6000 book bags filled ...

Want to learn Japanese by playing video games and watching anime? A band of YouTubers — with the help of modern tools — has made learning one of the world’s most challenging languages into a ...