![[…] in very few societies is the idea of youth as fraught as it is in Japan. The nation’s culture of conformity — so often remarked on by outsiders (like LIFE, for example) to the exclusion of other aspects of the country — is an elemental reality of Japanese life. And with that culture of conformity comes a drive to rebellion that can, and has, at times resembled a quest for self-negation.
In 1964, LIFE photographer Michael Rougier (left, on assignment in Tokyo) and correspondent Robert Morse spent time documenting one Japanese generation’s age of revolt, and came away with an astonishingly intimate, frequently unsettling portrait of teenagers hurtling willfully toward oblivion.
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This is so cute! Google Japan made this clever commercial, directed by Kosai Sekine of Tokyo based-advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo.
Read more: Google advert: Japanese girls use Google to dress themselves | CNNGo.com http://www.cnngo.com/tokyo/life/new-google-japan-advert-turns-playful-fashion-show-420442#ixzz1M4fPuLiD
