- Bōsōzoku translates as ‘violent running-tribe’. The term Zoku means tribe and/or clan and is often used as a suffix to subcultures within Japan.
- The precursors to the bōsōzoku were known as kaminari zoku (雷族, "Thunder Tribe"), urban motorcyclists more akin to the British rockers.
- The “Bōsōzoku Style” has become a distinct type of automobile modifications, which include highly exaggerated body kits and the bazooka exhausts.
- Which is why Mark and I are somewhere north of Tokyo, currently chasing a Bōsōzoku dream to get closer and experience it first-hand.
- Bōsōzoku (暴走族?, literally "violent running tribe") is a Japanese youth subculture associated with customized motorcycles and motorcycle clubs.
- “The bōsōzoku world is a very scary place,” Kazuhiro Hazuki, a former bōsōzoku gang leader told Vice News in 2015, who was a teenager when he first joined.
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- There is something about Japan's society, culture, and psyche that pushes them further than most. The Bosozoku motorcycle gangs embody this unique country.
- Bōsōzoku members tend to be viewed as criminals and outsiders, and it is commonly said of Bosozoku groups that they are the Yakuza recruiting field .