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Kamikaze Biker: Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan (Reprint Edition) by Ikuya Sato, Gerald D. Suttles Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 1998 ISBN-10: 0-226-73528-1 / 0226735281 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-73528-3 / 9780226735283 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 b |