Japan’s brutal (punk) rockers
Did you know that the first biker and punk gangs, the Bosozoku, in Japan were made up of former kamikaze pilots who had survived? They had nothing to lose. It was much the same in the US, where it was also World War II pilots who founded the biker gangs in the 1950s.
The Hells Angels didn’t come out of nowhere. The black leather jacket, which remains a symbol of rebellion to this day, was simply the old pilot’s leather jacket in the early days. In Japan, this subculture led directly to the yakuza and to Japan’s rock ’n’ roll scene, which is still active today. Read the – as always – fantastic article by the Spanish anarchists on Agente Provocador
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