Harajuku Street's Living Theater

Japanese street theater originated from teenagers' needs to express themselves. The Harajuku street phenomenon is a true frankness of expression using the street as the stage.

December 18, 2000

ONE Sunday morning in Harajuku just after sunrise. Not far from the gate of Meijijingu Shrine, the largest Shinto Temple in Tokyo, dozens of young people—nearly all female—were hanging around dressed in colorful costumes bearing themes like characters in a fairy tale. There was a girl dressed in a fairy costume, resembling a psychic woman, definitely from never-never land. All of a sudden, we in this real world, felt like entering thi

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