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Kamikaze Biker: Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan Hardback - 1991

by Ikuya Sato

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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 affluence on society."--Choice

"The volume provides a sophisticated . . . discussion of changes happening in Japanese society in the early 1980s. As such, it serves as a window on the 1990s and beyond."--Ross Mouer, Asian Studies Review

"Kamikaze Biker is a superlative study, one that might help liberate American social science from the simplistic notion that behavior not directly contributing to economic productivity should be summarily dismissed as 'dangerous' and 'deviant.' "--Los Angeles Times Book Review

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On summer nights in large Japanese cities, the busiest streets reverberate to deafening sound of hundreds of careening motorcycles and cars, astonishing onlookers and confounding police.

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  • Title Kamikaze Biker: Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan
  • Author Ikuya Sato
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Publication date 1991-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780226735252 / 0226735257
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.35 x 6.31 x 0.96 in (23.75 x 16.03 x 2.44 cm)
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress subjects Motorcycle gangs - Japan, Juvenile delinquency - Japan
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 90048610
  • Dewey Decimal Code 364.106

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