Noriko Calderon, wearing her school uniform, was being forced to make one of the most wrenching choices of her young life: To ...

Tokyo: Shohei Ohtani fever in Tokyo reached boiling point Saturday as the Japanese baseball superstar hit a home run in his first game in a Los Angeles Dodgers uniform in his home country. Ohtani is ...

Schoolgirl Annaleese O’Neill was walking ... some of whom were still wearing their uniforms. Now her heartbroken mother Helen O’Neill, is speaking out in a desperate attempt to prevent such ...

Japanese girl group F5ve (pronounced “fi-vee”) has announced their debut album, “Sequence 01,” via LDH Records/Three Six Zero Recordings. The announcement comes alongside a new single and ...

Randoseru, the traditional Japanese school bag, dates back to the Meiji era and symbolizes discipline and educational growth.For Japanese kids, the randoseru is more than just a bag—it’s a ...

But are uwabaki really necessary? Though they’ve been the norm at Japanese elementary, middle, and high schools since the 1950s, they’re falling out of favor in Tokyo’s Minato Ward, where out of the ...