He has made countless show-stopping appearancesatArabandinternational gatherings, standing out not justwithhisoutlandishclothing, but also his bluntspeechesandunconventionalbehaviour.
But lately Japan has a few well-publicized reasons to worry about its own young people: a 14-year-old Kobe boy's gruesome murder of a younger child, a 13-year-old Tochigi boy's fatal knifing of a teacher, an upsurge of teenage theft and prostitution, an epidemic of teen rudeness on trains and streets, an explosion of outlandishclothing, tattooing and body-piercing.