This photo provided by the Kashima Municipal Government shows a camel-colored school bag to be supplied ... and the colors were separated, with black for boys and red for girls.

Unlike regular school bags, these are built to last for ... Originally, randoseru followed a strict colour code—black for ...

Shiori tried on bags in several colors ... a sixth grader with a deep-red randoseru stitched with embroidered flowers that she had carried throughout elementary school, said she never yearned ...

And a recent survey revealed that green tones have for the first time overtaken traditional red and brown as the preferred color for girls' school backpacks. The annual survey by Seiban ...