Comments on: On Being a Teenage Punk in Japan

By: owwls

owwls — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 07:08:00 +0000

Someone finally caught it after 2 years :) thanks

By: Jackson Montgomery

Jackson Montgomery — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 04:50:56 +0000

Nice Defiance, Ohio reference.

By: owwls

owwls — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:47:15 +0000

You obviously don’t know anything about reading comprehension. I specifically say that I’m talking about pop-punk’s equivalent in Japan, and specifically acknowledge the existence of other, more vital scenes in Japan. As for the rest, I’m not going to look it up because you’re rude.

By: hiroshi

hiroshi — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:00:14 +0000

You obviously don’t know anything about Japanese punk. look up G.I.S.M., Gauze, Zyanose, Framtid, and several other punk bands from Japan who are notorious around the punk scenes of the world. You don’t know the first thing about Japanese punk. You also seem like all of your knowledge of the American punk scene comes from cliche’d movies like SLC Punk or Suburbia. Look up videos called “All Crusties Spending Loud Night 2002″ and just take in very slowly just how wrong you are about real punk in Japan.

By: Megan

Megan — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:08:03 +0000

Kind of short-sighted. There is much political punk in the US. Look to Bad Religion, Anti-Flag, Nofx, Rise Against, Against Me, Rancid, … all great examples of contemporary punk with political leanings. As far as punk being dead, well, you can look at all of those bands to see thriving scenes, whether you deem them “punk enough” or not.

By: Elisha Folks

Elisha Folks — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:39:58 +0000

thats not necessarily true. for one, punk is not dead, you want examples? me. i go with the biker jacket short dyed hair dc. martens,,,the whole shebang. i am as punk as we get. an i do agree with what you are saying about the imitation of style. i am seeing most of the few kids who claim to be punk just liking the style, an even getting it very wrong. what realy makes me punk is not about cusing or smoking or even rebelling, its your out look on life. from my experience it is about having fun an doing what YOU want to do with out caring about what others think about you. an all the TRUE punks that i know agree…its a sad thing..things like “emo” have leaked there way into main streem an incorrectly dragged punk along. people ask me if i personally am emo, an this is insulting. they are the exact opposite! i tell them i am just a teenage girl doing what i feel like doing. forgive me for rambling but i give this topic alot of thought. an its very true the sterio typical punk rebellion was realy only in the UK. now a days evry ones so full of themselves its almost embarrassing to say im a teenager from the US. self esteem is great, an i have loads, but being an ass whole is entirely different. anyway, this was a great article. from what i had been understanding japan had alot of “scene” anime sort of fashion going on, but that doesn’t seem to be the case…thanks for sharing!

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:29:30 +0000

“Punk, after all, is a pretty American idea.”

I think you are conflating punk with rebellion as there never were really been any HS aged American punks, other than the “Get the hell off my lawn, you punks” kind of punks. Particularly not 16-year old punks.

Political punk was always an English thing.

Finally, punk’s been dead for about 25 years in the U.S. and close to 30 in the U.K. It’s all just a bad imitation of a style and music that was very much of a time and place. No even Tokyo was such a place at that time.

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By: Kaori (@BuckedbytheStar)

Kaori (@BuckedbytheStar) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:27:46 +0000

When I first came back to Japan, I’m pretty sure I spoke like a punk but never acted like one. This post kind of made me wish I had though :)

By: owwls

owwls — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:24:10 +0000

Damn, fixing it. Thanks!