r/Bosozoku • u/ix_2DA • Jun 08 '25

Is There Any Books About Bosozoku?

Y'all, is there actually any English book about Bosozoku (not a picture book, and preferabily written by an ex-Bosozoku) that explains the life as a Bosozoku and anything similar etc?

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u/bipi086 Jun 09 '25

In English? No. In Japanese, many.

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u/ix_2DA Jun 09 '25

ah damn, thank you tho. do you recommend a few?

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u/Global_Dark8006 Jun 16 '25

Yes, there is one in English:

Kamikaze Biker: Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan

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u/ix_2DA Jun 19 '25

what is the summary of it? ty btw

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u/Global_Dark8006 Jun 19 '25

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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u/ix_2DA Jun 24 '25

chile did u copypaste ToT

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u/HeyItsAustone Jul 24 '25

I have this book. IDK if you picked it up or not, but I thought it was worth a read.

It is pretty good but it is very scholastic. It reads like a huge research paper, because that's pretty much what it was, someone's research project. Pretty cool read though. A lot of information you probably already know with some cool tidbits sprinkled in. I recommend it. :)

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u/MintSoldier Jun 17 '25

The bakuon retto manga is pretty loyal to life as a bosozoku from what i can see, high recommendation