I came across the Laforet Harajuku Clean Busters on the streets of Omotesando in Tokyo the other day. Matching tops, short tartan skirts, black tights, Ugg boots and pretty green dust carts were the fashion order of the day.



Laforet in Harajuku is, of course, a mecca of teen and twenty-something's shopping. So what were these young people doing picking up cigarette butts and discarded plastic bottles?



The idea for young people to get involved with cleaning up the urban environment was started by the Shibuya-based NPO Greenbird in 2003. "A clean town also makes people's hearts and minds cleaned," is the group's watchword.

The idea grew from the clean-ups organized by Japanese university students who have periodic mass cleansing of their campuses and local areas, after everyone has littered the area for a few months.

Greenbird now organizes events in 30 different districts in Japan including Kabukicho, Kichijoji, Kamakura, Omiya, Nagoya and Sapporo. Paris and Sri Lanka also now have local chapters.



Greenbird
206 Co-op Olympia, 6-35-3 Jingumae, Shibuya, Tokyo, 150-0001
Tel: 03 5469 5318

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Harajuku is Tokyo's most well-known center of street culture. It's where you'll find any of the myriad fashion fads that Japanese young folks are into, played out to the fullest.

Yoyogi Park is, unlike the name suggests, not accessible from the JR Yoyogi station, but from the next station on the loopline, Harajuku. Being in Harajuku, it is where you'll find fashion fads free of the commercialism that completely soaks the rest of the area. This is where kids who have done with shopping just show their stuff - most of it in the form of music and dance.

Rock'n'roll is an old hardy of the Japanese street scene. It is perhaps just as in evidence now as it was when I first came to Japan over 20 years ago. Walking through Harajuku this Sunday was this circle of jiving guys and gals doing their thang to, among other numbers, Johnny B. Goode.

Enjoy!

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Laforet Harajuku is a landmark department store cum museum in Tokyo's Harajuku district: a beacon of youth fashion. Laforet also has a museum in Tokyo's Roppongi district.

The store is located very near the Jingu-mae intersection with Omotesando Street, and is distinctive for the constant changes it undergoes in outward appearance.

Last week was Laforet's Grand Bazaar, a summer sale that the store is famous for. However, this year the Grand Bazaar was seriously pumped up with a generous few extra pounds per cubic inch of hot sex appeal.



Huge red balloons in place of massive breasts bulged in way-more-than-lifesize glamor over the whole Jingu-mae area, perhaps symbolizing not only the bounty to be had at the Bazaar, but the mortal danger of your sweetest dreams disappearing with a bang in hot summer air if you didn't get your ass down there fast.

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