Here and below are some of the Japanese avant-garde designers ... were beloved but not exactly mainstream. The emergence of punk spurred new ways of thinking about creative protest and provocation ...

Hannah Walhout is a senior editor at Travel + Leisure, where she oversees the magazine's Discoveries section ... and roll sushi chef.” He’s a punk musician—and Austin, his longtime adopted ...

But the Japanese affinity for efficiency and practicality would provide tools to create new sonic vocabularies, from punk rock and hip-hop to electronic dance music and heavy metal. Without it ...

Kenichi Ugana‘s “The Gesuidouz” is a delightful deadpan oddity about a Japanese punk group, whose 26-year-old lead singer Hanako (Natsuko) is convinced she’ll be dead at 27, the same age ...