The hanging thingy on the young guy's backpack is called omamori (お守り) which means "amulet" and is something you get at Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. Omamori are specialized and this one doesn't even take a lot of imagination to figure out what it is for --if you can't tell just from the picture, the word under it is "judo" (柔道).
(For a bigger version of this picture both in color and black and white, check my "Japan Arekore" set on Flickr).
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