Priced at ¥88,000 JPY (approximately $670 USD), the Nike Randoseru backpack is available now exclusively at Nike Japan.

The traditional Japanese primary-school child's backpack has become the surprising must-have souvenir for foreign visitors to Japan this year. Known locally as - from the Dutch word for backpack ...

It was called "Ukuran," a portmanteau of the Japanese words "uku" (to float) and "randoseru" -- school backpacks traditionally used by Japanese schoolchildren from grades one to six. Etsuko Fujita ...

a staple of Japanese childhood for close to 150 years. No one mandates that students use these backpacks, but strong social norms lead most families to purchase them for their children.