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Speed Tribes
Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan’s Next Gener-
ation is a 1995 book by Karl Taro Greenfeld. It is a col-
References
lection of fiction short stories, each focusing on a spe-
cific Japanese youth in the early 1990s, a turbulent time External links
in Japan following the collapse of the late 1980s "bubble"
• Speed Tribes Revisited – An hour with Karl Taro
economy. Its subjects include a young Yakuza, a night-
Greenfeld" by Jean-Marc Moorghen, November 19,
club hostess, an office girl, a motorcycle gangster, a hack-
2004,
er, an ultra-right-wing nationalist, and ’Choco Bon-Bon’,
a porn star. Popular 1990s rock band Zi:Kill appears in a
chapter that documents the writer’s time spent with the
band and the events that nearly caused their break up.
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