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This yearning for a mind-altering experience, especially one that is more reminiscent of Haight-Ashbury than Harajuku, has blossomed into a full-blown pop-cultural phenomenon. More and more Japanese kids are hanging out in the streets, parks and clubs in search of a psychedelic, '60s-style encounter that...
A majority of Japan's neo-psychedelics are freeta, a ballooning demographic set that refers to young people who hop from one part-time job to another, their income cobbled from their parents' handouts and minimum-wage jobs. Employment for life? These kids don't think much past tonight's...
But why hallucinogenic hippiedom instead of, say, heroin chic? Well, heroin, for one, is expensive, difficult to get in Japan and illegal. It also carries disparaging connotations of addiction, needles and misery. Mushrooms, on the other hand, seem much more benign, mainly because of their easy availability and image as...
The kids who gather on sunny afternoons on a concrete plaza at the corner of hip boulevards Meiji and Omotesando seem to be taking their cultural cues from myriad psychedelic compass points: Ibiza, Goa, San Francisco. Hopping trains into the city from all over Japan, these teens and twentysomethings flock...
For many kids, the nippo-psychedelia movement allows for a welcome experimentation that is also transforming the music scene, from trance to underground rock. Ken Matsutani, manager of independent rock-music label Captain Trip Records, says he notices a telling change in his industry?namely, more mainstream acceptance of bands...