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The Japanese term ""Bosozoku"" refers to a specific Japanese phenomenon, the teengage bike gangs based in the urban centres of Japan that gather every weekend in the major metropolises, such as Osaka and Tokyo, for mass rallies of bikers in their thousands. First formed in the 1950s, when the Hell's Angels in the US reached their apogee with Marlon Brando in ""The Wild Ones"", the Bosozoku have a tame equivalent in the Mods and Rockers that fought pitched battles on Brighton Beach in Britain in the 1960s. They are also considered in Japan to be the first rung on the ladder for would-be members of the Yakuza (the Japanese equivalent of the Mafia). This text reveals the intimate secrets of Japanese biker gangs, including female biker gangs, alongside studio portraits of individual members with their customized bikes, and the mass rallies and road wars that have made the Bosozoku subculture such a world-wide underground phenomenon.

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Masayuki Yoshinaga is one of the leading fashion and reportage photographers of his generation, whose images appear in such prestigious magazines as Studio Voice, Dazed & Confused, The Face and Barfout!

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