Here is the page for an upcoming documentary profiling the decline of the bosozoku culture in japan.
This film looks really exciting and interesting. I cannot wait to see it.
http://figure8productions.com/bosozoku_trailer2_large.html

Five or six years ago I still saw a lot of bosozoku, but it had become more of a "rural"/small-city thing. There was a group active around Nagasaki University a few times a week, and I saw hundreds of riders once in Kyoto. The real heyday was the 70s, so it's definitely been a slow decline and the population decline probably effects it too.

Godspeed you black emperor, a bosozoku doc from the 70s, is worth watching.

Why do they were those hospital masks? Do we need to send them a box of ol' fashion American bandanna's?

Maybe this movie will reinvigorate the culture.

to cover their identity but most Japanese wear face masks when ill ect not to spread it also they used to fly imperial japan flags i think you can be arrested for that in japan?

Yeah Rising Sun is verboten. War Crime. I try to mail them as many as I can.

That can't be...the Maritime SDF still use the "rising sun" flags on their ships today.

Yeah sorry i just found out its not illegal but would probably be considered bad taste and you would stand out alot. I think the rising sun flag goes back to the 7th century a certain samurai clan used it not sure of which tho.

so i was just repeating an ol' wives tale. sorry.