Topic: Japanese Classic Yankee Museum

In this post described about juvenile delinquent "Yankee" in Japan. The yankee is a word that originally indicates the American. However, the juvenile delinquent are called a yankee in Japan. Word "Yankee" written here doesn't indicate the American. It is a start from the fashion street of American Village in Osaka, Japan. The yankee is a fashion that became popular in the 1980's. The Hawaiian shirts and width wide pants become popular in the 1950's were sold in American village. In this post, it describes about the yankee of a classical style that became popular in the 1980's in Japan.

Fashion

First of all, the feature of yankee's fashion style is described. In 1980's in Japan, American 1950's fashion become popular. Pompadour was basic their hairstyle called "Regent" in Japan. The origin came from Elvis Presley and James Dean. And, it has developed into the permanent wave pompadour of the teddy boy who appeared in the 1980's. Brian Setzer's beauty pompadour of Stray Cats that represented the 1980 year was mimicked by yankees. The adult who exceeded 30 years old suited the pompadour. Because the hair margin is thick, the yankee boys do not become beautiful the pompadour. They therefore acute angle shaved the hair margin. It is called "Sorikomi" in Japanese. The center photograph is Show Ayanocozey by the vocal of a music band famous in Japan "Kishidan." They love the Japanese classic Yankee and are performance by their Yankee style as the parody. He liked the words "Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die", and became their album name. This language is written by the T-shirt of the brand "Seditionaries" of Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren.

The school rule with Japan fine for a school uniform is decided. Left photographs are the broad trousers which many Yankees like. The Yankee is calling these trousers the "Bontan." Bontan resembles the zoot suit of the 1940-1950s. Bontan also resembles Knickerbockers which was in fashion in the 1800s. Anyway, at the time of a quarrel or confused fighting, probably it was easy to move and beautiful. The form of Bontan is various. The type which four pleats were given to the waist, and skirt width was wide and carried out the rollup like the formal suit of the 1950s. An African trouser type with skirt width narrow like MC Hamar, and extremely wide width of a thigh. This Bontan is worn by the Yankee also out of a school.

Car and Motorcycle
Japanese classic Yankee likes motorcycle and cars. They giving too much money for customizing car and motorcycle like a hotrod. License of a motorcycle is acquirable from 16 years old in Japan. The Japanese Yankee begins to see the motorbike magazine at school. Soon, Yankees become a motorcycle gang like club activities. A motorcycle gang is called "Bōsōzoku" in Japanese. Bōsōzoku (literally "violent running tribe") is a Japanese subculture associated with motorcycle clubs and gangs.


Bōsōzoku likes classic road mortorcycle. The motorcycle's handlebars are narrowed same like a Chopper American style. They know that a motorcycle will be confiscated by the police. Therefore, they steal and custom others' motorcycle. What they attach importance to is exhaust sound. It is parallel and sound of the 4-cylinder set muffler is made into the highest. It is one of the purposes that they show off existence of them. In order to show off existence, displacement volume must be large as much as possible. The state where the silencer was extracted in the liter class is the best. However, a liter class is insufficient for the number of supplies. It is patience in a 400-cc class unavoidably. Although there is also a violent thing of cutting off in a set portion, foundations are specification of a short pipe without a silencer. If it is the old vehicle age, the muffler of this sort has been obtained comparatively easily, and since attachment was also easy, the appropriate number should have come out of it. The prototype of the specification which can be satisfied mostly so far is done. Moreover, in order to call it the striking pose in a friend or to consider it as the kind of boast, it is necessary to consider it as the machine which raises a light attachment position, also raises hips narrowly, finishes a handle beautifully, and attracts people's attention.


He who was a former motorcycle gang for my friend tells pleasantly having inhaled and carried out the trip of the thinner those days. Thinner is play which obtains a hallucination and a pleasant sensation by attracting the organic solvent with much toluene content. He says that he was able to pull the wires with the beam which inhales thinner and comes out of a fingertip.

Left Chinese character (Japanese call "Kanji") is name of Bosozoku team in my place. Japanese having read from left to right also having from up to down. Left character is left to right reading. Primal first kanji is 羅"Ra". This is buddhist word. Mean is strong god from India to Japan. Next 世"Se" mean is this world. Next 尊"Son" mean is respect from buddhist word too. This Ra-Se-Son like french language's "La Saison" The Japanese Yankee regards using often, thus European languages, transposing them to a Chinese character as it being a joke. It resembles the technique which changes the foreign word in China into a Chinese character.
The 乱気流 (Rankiryu) of the second line means it as turbulence. a Japanese motorcycle gang means being confused "舞 " which means random" and dancing is used for the name of a team.
But a promiscuous party is not meant. The dance which sits on the rear of a motorcycle and provokes the police and a citizen is called "dancing." "愛羅舞優" of the third line is the Japanese English which applied English "I love you" to the Chinese character as it was. Of course, it reads with I love you. As for the feature, a motorcycle gang's team name has many what made English and French the Chinese character in this way, and things which seem to be strong and mean dissidence.