Fashioning Japanese Subcultures: Decentralization and Diversification as Neotribes

This second edition brings the definitive empirical work on Japanese youth fashion subcultures up—to—date for the 2020s, featuring three new chapters and essential updates in light of new fieldwork and globalized digital media.

Based on in—depth ethnographic fieldwork in Tokyo and illustrated with striking color images, Fashioning Japanese Subcultures gives a unique insight into how and why subcultures evolve and what they mean to their members. Defined by style and urban district, subcultur...