Japanese randoseru school bags may be a trendy bag shape outside of the nation, but within the nation, they’re pretty standard, including the color and design range. Once in a while a cool ...

You may have heard of the leather, boxy school bag that Japanese elementary school kids use. Called randoseru in Japanese, these bags are expensive–sometimes exorbitantly so–but usually made of ...

School bags are big business in Japan as classes start for another year The iconic Japanese school bag has spawned an entire industry of its own, with manufacturers offering an endless range of ...

In Japan, the so-called "Rankatsu" season for purchasing new school year backpacks called "Randoseru" has arrived. Rankatsu, a combination of Randoseru and the Japanese word "katsu (活)" meaning ...