ry Sunday, leather-clad teen-agers spill out of Harajuku Station and head to- ward Yoyogi Park, there to dance until dark. The passion for such distractions has its critics: A recent government white paper asserted that today's Japanese youth are "devoid of perseverance, dependent upon others, and self-centered."
The Wilson QuarterlyISummer 1985
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