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Speed Tribes: Literary Connections & Cultures

Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation is a 1994 anthology book by Karl Taro Greenfeld. A collection of nonfiction short stories about the decadence and disaffection of urban Japanese Gen X youth during the early 1990s in the last years of the Bubble Economy, Speed Tribes was widely reviewed in international media.

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Speed Tribes topic overview

The analysis highlights Literary Connections and Cultures as prominent areas in the source structure around Speed Tribes.

Related topics
15
Source areas
3
Connected nodes
18
Extracted relationships
36
Concept neighborhoods
10
Bridge connections
18

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Reception · 7 topics
Overview · 4 topics
Summary · 4 topics

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Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Author
Karl Taro Greenfeld
Genre
Anthology
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Cover artist
Adrian Morgan / Red Letter Design, Dan Winters
Media type
Print

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Overview

Summary

Reception

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Speed Tribes connects Entity context

The extracted context around Speed Tribes shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Speed Tribes → Alan Poul, Asian Wall Street Journal, Dennis Romero, Greenfeld, Greenfeld's, In Japan Quarterly, Janet Goff, Japan, Japanese, Kirkus Reviews, Kodansha, Los Angeles Times, Margaret Scott, The New York Times, Writing Another extracted example is Speed Tribes → Choco Bon-Bon, Each, Greenfeld, In, Its, Japanese, Kill, New Journalism, Popular, Tokyo, Yakuza, Zi. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Speed Tribes

Top relations

related to Reception · 15
Speed Tribes → Alan Poul, Asian Wall Street Journal, Dennis Romero, Greenfeld, Greenfeld's, In Japan Quarterly, Janet Goff, Japan, Japanese, Kirkus Reviews, Kodansha, Los Angeles Times, Margaret Scott, The New York Times, Writing
related to Summary · 12
Speed Tribes → Choco Bon-Bon, Each, Greenfeld, In, Its, Japanese, Kill, New Journalism, Popular, Tokyo, Yakuza, Zi
Author · 1
Speed Tribes → Karl Taro Greenfeld
Cover artist · 1
Speed Tribes → Adrian Morgan / Red Letter Design, Dan Winters
Genre · 1
Speed Tribes → Anthology
ISBN · 1
Speed Tribes → .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:r…
Media type · 1
Speed Tribes → Print
Pages · 1
Speed Tribes → 286
Publication date · 1
Speed Tribes → 1994
Publisher · 1
Speed Tribes → Harper Perennial

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

speed tribes japanese greenfeld book stories anthology 1990s days nights japan's next generation karl taro media writing youth early bubble

Speed Tribes relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 36 structured relationships around Speed Tribes. Examples in this analysis include Speed Tribes → Author → Karl Taro Greenfeld and Speed Tribes → Cover artist → Adrian Morgan / Red Letter Design, Dan Winters. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Speed TribesAuthorKarl Taro Greenfeld1.00infobox
Speed TribesCover artistAdrian Morgan / Red Letter Design, Dan Winters1.00infobox
Speed TribesGenreAnthology1.00infobox
Speed TribesISBN.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:r…1.00infobox
Speed TribesMedia typePrint1.00infobox
Speed TribesPages2861.00infobox
Speed TribesPublication date19941.00infobox
Speed TribesPublisherHarper Perennial1.00infobox
Speed TribesSubjectJapan1.00infobox
Speed Tribesrelated to ReceptionWriting0.60section
Speed Tribesrelated to ReceptionThe New York Times0.60section
Speed Tribesrelated to ReceptionAlan Poul0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Speed Tribes bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Tribes, Greenfeld and Japanese. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Speed Tribes
    • Tribes
    • Greenfeld
    • Japanese
    • Stories
    • Anthology
    • Bubble
    • Characters
    • Days
    • Early
    • Generation
    • Japan
    • Japan's
  • speed tribes
    • Tribes
    • Greenfeld
    • Japanese
    • Stories
    • Anthology
    • Bubble
    • Characters
    • Days
    • Early
    • Generation
    • Japan
    • Japan's
  • karl taro greenfeld
    • Next
    • Nights
    • Taro
    • Speed
    • Tribes
    • Characters
    • Greenfeld
    • Japan
    • Japan's
    • Karl
    • Life
    • Author
  • bubble economy
    • Media
    • Youth
    • Collection
    • Decadence
    • Disaffection
    • Gen
    • Last
    • Nonfiction
    • Short
    • Urban
    • Years
    • Japanese
  • japanese
    • Stories
    • Speed
    • Tribes
    • Culture
    • Japan
    • Life
    • Media
    • Publication
    • Reviewed
    • Times
    • Youth
    • Writing
  • anthology
    • Days
    • Generation
    • Japan's
    • Karl
    • Next
    • Nights
    • Taro
    • Greenfeld
    • Author
    • Bubble
    • Japan
    • Life
  • gen x
    • Last
    • Nonfiction
    • Short
    • Urban
    • Years
    • Early
    • Media
    • Reviewed
    • Youth
    • Stories
    • Japanese
    • Speed
  • new journalism
    • Culture
    • Reporting
    • Reviewed
    • Times
    • Writing
    • Stories
    • Speed
    • Tribes

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Speed Tribes, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Speed Tribes with Reception. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Speed TribesReception · splits 11 ⟂ 8
Speed TribesOverview · splits 14 ⟂ 5
Speed TribesSummary · splits 14 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Speed Tribes

Nodes19
Edges18
Triples36
Avg. degree1.89
Density0.105263
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Speed Tribes to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Literary Connections & Cultures, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Speed Tribes · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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