Kamikaze Biker Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan

Name: Kamikaze Biker Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan
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ISBN: 9780226735283

ISBN-10: 0226735281

ISBN-13: 9780226735283

Edition: 1998

Authors: Ikuya Sato, Gerald D. Suttles

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In this firsthand account of high-risk car and motorcycle racing in Japan, Ikuya Sato shows how affluence and consumerism have spawned various experimental and deviant life-styles among youth. Kamikaze Biker offers an intriguing look at a form of delinquency in a country traditionally thought to be devoid of social problems. "Ikuya Sato's Kamikaze Biker is an exceptionally fine ethnographic analysis of a recurrent form of Japanese collective youth deviance. . . . Sato has contributed a work of value to a wide range of scholarly audiences."—Jack Katz, Contemporary Sociology "A must for anyone interested in Japan, juvenile delinquency and/or youth behavior in general, or the impact of…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/20/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 0.59" wide x 0.89" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

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