remember around 4 years ago when japanese teenagers went crazy and
started wearing blackface with white lipstick and foot-high platform
boots?  in japan they were called 'yamanbas' (mountain witches).

for some reason i couldn't find lots of images of this trend online,
even though it remains famous (infamous?) in america.  so i scanned a
lot of my own yamanba fashion magazines and posted them here. around
38 big-ass scans in all.

http://www.harmful.org/homedespot/newtdr/currentpage.htm

at the bottom of this page also there's some of my snarky commentary
on current japanese trends, but it's not as amazing as the pictures.