{"id":52427,"date":"2023-02-07T12:57:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T03:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/07\/old-school-backpacks-too-heavy-japans-pupils-complain"},"modified":"2023-02-07T12:57:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T03:57:33","slug":"old-school-backpacks-too-heavy-japans-pupils-complain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52427","title":{"rendered":"Old school backpacks too heavy, Japan\u2019s pupils complain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sturdy leather bag known as randoseru can weigh 4-10kg when full, leaving students in pain and wanting something lighter<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a familiar sight every weekday morning and afternoon all over Japan: children as young as six creaking under the strain of a leather backpack crammed with textbooks.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>randoseru<\/em> \u2013 a Japanese derivation of ransel, the obsolete Dutch word for backpack \u2013 is a fixture of primary school education, a repository for everything a child needs to get through a day at school.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/07\/old-school-backpacks-too-heavy-japans-pupils-complain\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sturdy leather bag known as randoseru can weigh 4-10kg when full, leaving students in pain and wanting something lighterIt\u2019s a familiar sight every weekday morning and afternoon all over Japan: children as young as six creaking under the strain of a le&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52437,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52427\/revisions\/52437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}