Where the ganguro gyaru came from, and why they vanished
OCT 29 2024
Researcher Yuka Kubo, author of a study of gyaru culture, on the origins of ganguro in Shibuya, its links to surf culture and the postwar American secondhand clothing trade around what is now 109.
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