Looking Back at Motorcycle Magazines' Classified Ads, a Culture That Vanished After Japan's Privacy Law

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An article revisits the classified ad sections of motorcycle magazines, popular until internet use spread in the late 1990s. Sellers developed their own abbreviation culture due to character limits, but full names, addresses and phone numbers were printed, which was sometimes exploited by bike theft rings. The culture faded after Japan's 2005 personal information protection law took effect.