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 ...

Eventually, it became known as the randoseru, from the Dutch word for backpack, "ransel." Two years later, in 1887, then Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito presented a randoseru to Prince Yoshihito.

I found a colorful array of “randoseru” in green, purple, yellow and other hues in a corner of a department store displaying these firm-sided backpacks for school kids. I heard preparations ...

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 ...