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Yankee Mate, a culture mook produced by the Japanese editorial team Yankee Mate Production Committee, is overseen by former Teens Road editor-in-chief Higa Kenji and renowned Yankee culture researcher Iwahashi Kenichiro. The mook revisits Japan's unique delinquent culture through documents and testimonials, focusing on the bosozoku (bōsōzoku) and ladies' culture that became social phenomena in the 1980s and early 1990s. Yankee culture, which emerged after the period of rapid economic growth, has forged its own unique sphere of popular culture, linking it to diverse media such as fashion, music, magazines, and manga. This book serves as an attempt to reconstruct that memory as an archive. It spans the history of the Kaminari-zoku (light-skinned girls), delinquent girls, tsuppari (delinquent girls), and ladies' girls, and includes iconic figures such as CREAM SODA, Yokohama Ginbae, and Nameneko, as well as Ura-Button and Yankee manga. It also includes a wealth of primary sources, including a dialogue between the editors-in-chief, interviews with those involved, and photogravure photos from the period. This book attempts to reexamine Yankee culture, which has traditionally been discussed as a subculture, from both memory and documents.