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Not nobody talkin' much 'bout SHABU

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Not nobody talkin' much 'bout SHABU

Postby Taro Toporific » Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:45 pm

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Tools to tackle Japan's drug problem are lacking

The Japan Times: Nov. 8, 2005
...Japanese awareness about drug abuse is on the rise, as is public concern over the growing number of young people using "kakuseizai," or more specifically methamphetamines, or "shabu."
....amphetamines and methamphetamines suit the Japanese mindset perfectly.
Japanese "like to work and study," he says, and on shabu you "don't have to eat or sleep."
In 1919, Japanese chemist A. Ogata developed methamphetamine, and it was widely used as a way to keep soldiers up and at 'em during WWII....more...
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Postby torasan » Tue Nov 08, 2005 10:54 pm

Interview with Karl Taro Greenfeld




Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation (Harper Perennial, $13.00).

A fascinating look at the underbelly of Japanese society, Speed Tribes introduces the reader to a variety of twisted and tawdry characters. There's Choco Bon-Bon the porn star, Jackie the hostess, and Kazu the drug dealer, to name a few. These folks are not your stereotypical Japanese.

Interview with Karl Taro Greenfeld:

BC: What attracted you to this element of Japanese society?


KTG: This is the Japan I was involved in, versus what I'd been reading about. The Japan I was living in was more seedy, sorted, lively and energetic. The Japan that was being portrayed by the mainstream media in the early 90s was stale-- the geisha and the salaryman. I saw Japanese society very differently--chaotic, violent, edgy. I was drawn to it.


BC: Is this generation different from previous ones?


KTG: This generation is different in that there is not a desperation to achieve. Previous generations came of age with a desire to catch up with the west. This generation has enough money and prestige. They just want to dive in and take what they can get while it's there. They take things for granted. They want the fruits of the previous generation's labor, but they don't want to work for it.


BC: How did you meet these people?


KTG: They were, in most cases, people I already knew. I was introduced to some by friends, or through family, or by different girlfriends. It was a case of knowing all the wrong people. These characters are remarkably close together socially. They are from he same social spectrum.


BC: Which character is your favorite?


KTG: Daisuke, from the chapter Dai: The Motorcycle Thief. He was this really nice kid who stole motorcycles. He was really excited by life, naive, and endearing. He got a role as an extra in a movie and actually thought that he was going to be a big star. He still had hope in him, unlike all these other criminals, who had no optimism. I could empathize with him.


BC: What's your next book?


KTG: A novel, published by Riverhead.


BC: Thank you.


Order Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation, by Karl Taro Greenfeld (Harper Perennial, $13.00)
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Postby IkemenTommy » Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:01 am

My original post from another thread...
Japanese will not make speed and methamphetamine illegal because those drugs increase workers' productivity while downer drugs like weed make people dumb and unproductive so those are never legalized. Yeah.. you might refute with that and tell me how the J constitution tries to resemble the post WWII American drug policy and so forth.. but that's the bottom of it.
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Postby Taro Toporific » Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:04 am

torasan wrote:Interview with Karl Taro Greenfeld....
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K-cool find torasan!:thumbs:

I never met Taro Greenfeld in the bowels of Roppongi but his novel Speed Tribes sure read truer than life. Here's what Greenfeld says about his real Tokyo-dayz.


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YOU MOVE ABROAD, AND SUDDENLY YOU'RE MAKING MORE MONEY AND DATING SEXIER WOMEN THAN YOU EVER COULD IN THE STATES. SO WHY AREN'T YOU HAPPY?
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Postby Kuang_Grade » Wed Nov 09, 2005 3:17 pm

Greenfeld also did a more recent piece on what had and had not changed from his more happenin' days in the 90's for Time Magazine in 2003

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7603
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Postby torasan » Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:04 pm

Also, I think Greenfeld was in and out of real-life drugs rehabilitation centers earlier in his life. Some place in Oregon, etcetera. He was a heroin addict at one point, addicted, or maybe it was shabu or cocaine. But in his early days, he finally tanked out and had to go to rehab. Makes his books all the more real, if you ask me! He wrote about all this somewhere! Like his true confessions.
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