No rule requires Japan’s elementary school students to wear the boxy, bulky backpack known as the randoseru. But for nearly 150 years, nearly all of them have. https://ift.tt/qhkwNSn https://ift.tt/kLYS9qw World New York Times July 14, 2024 at 08:00PMThe Book Bag That Binds Japanese Society

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