Today is Halloween, and again this year Shibuya is taking the lead in the annual War on Youth Culture.
New for 2025? Barricades around Hachiko, LUUP service suspension, Miyashita Park shutdown, and 125 more security guards in addition to the usual thousands of riot police hustling pedestrians and shouting through megaphones.
It’s honestly pretty sad—a vicious reaction against one of the most popular festivals for the under-40 crowd. (Sure there were drunk people and crowded streets, but certainly no more than at any other matsuri.)
Rather than a crackdown, it’s a festival that deserves to be an official city event—a celebration of the creativity, energy, dynamism, and _life_ of young people in Japan.
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