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All of that is Japanese culture.
I've been lucky enough to have been able to travel the world. Other cultures will import the bits and pieces of of Americana they like. Japan is pretty much unique in how they will obsessively copy it down to the most minute detail, to the point where it...
A couple of things, the first is that when I was in middle/high school, my dad had an old civilian A-2 from the 80s that I would steal and wear. It was the first leather jacket that I wore, and still a style I like.
The second is that I kind of came into the Americana style through a very...
Up through 1940s, Japan had been in an extended war for quite some time. Pretty much right after the Meiji restoration, Japan thought, "Let's give that imperialist thing that the west did so well a shot," and started trying to snatch up every piece of landmass in their general area, from all...
