Zokusha

"MountainCommand" (MountainCommand) 12/17/2013 at 22:13 • Filed to: jdm

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From my research, this should be noted not to be confused with Bosozoku. Zokusha is for the cars and a different group of people. Bosozoku are the motorcycle guys. more or less. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

i just want to learn more japanese words. Their language just sounds so fun.

Ill edit the link contents here:

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ZokuSha kids are nothing more than your local street racers – but in Japan. The term Zoku  means tribe and/or clan, it is often used as a suffix to subcultures within Japan. Groups started appearing among Japanese youth after WWII in the 1950s and 60s; a novel called Season of the Sun , by Shintaro Ishihara, gave rise to a reckless and care-free generation. 'Street' groups continued to manifest into the 70s, 80s, and 90s with a booming car culture ranging from highway racers(Roulette-zoku or Circuit-zoku), drag racers(Zeroyon-zoku), drifters(Dorifto-zoku), Vanners (Vanning-zoku), Touge battlers(Rolling-zoku), and of course Bakusozoku – Boso tribe. ZokuSha kids are commonly mis-labeled as BosoZoku, meaning violent running-tribe or violent speed-tribe - another term, used to describe the motorcycle gangs that sprang up in the rapid automotive industry expansion of the 1950s. The first BosoZoku were known as kaminari-zoku or Lightning-tribe and mostly came from lower socioeconomic classes and publicly displayed their disaffection and dissatisfaction with Japanese mainstream society. They would style and modify their motorcycles in peculiar ways, such as large fairings and loud exhausts. ZokuSha kids are nothing like the early BosoZoku bikers, however there is a group/style reffered to as Kaido Racer which is be a mashup of ZokuSha and BosoZoku. They drive 'BosoZoku' styled cars slowly down highways while zig-zgging and revving their engines, often with passengers hanging out the windows waving bats and flags and accompanied by BosoZoku bikes.

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Source: Shakotanjam!

Squid > MountainCommand 12/17/2013 at 22:24

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I'm fine with victory pipes. . . I kinda want to get a muscle car just to put victory pipes on it. . . I think it would be funny as all hell to have a camaro with giant victory pipes and a huge bumper and an elongated point on the nose. Oh man one day I will do it.

MountainCommand > Squid 12/17/2013 at 22:30

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Do it! I want to be driving around one day, and see you driving it, and ill know, " theres that dude from oppo! He finally did it!" and ill try to waive and honk but youll drown out my attempt with the melody of that v8..

Squid > MountainCommand 12/17/2013 at 22:34

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I love how they all sound like 2 stroke dirt bikes. . .

Krieger (@FSKrieger22) > MountainCommand 12/18/2013 at 03:05

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So that is what Zero-yon means. That's this car's name explained then: