India, April 12 -- Since the first harsh notes rang out, the dominant story of punk has been a Western one. To most of us, this genre of music is distinctly White-coded: created and sustained by the White working class, fuelled by insurgent Caucasian identity. But it has been a global and culturally diverse revolution from the start. Punk music, in the 1970s, seemed custom-made for Japan. The country was still reckoning with World War 2 trauma, grappling with astronomically high inflation, and maintaining a stoic global image through enforced conformity and the ostracism of outliers. In films and music, a revolution was brewing. Horror, anger and noise would be its weapons. As early as 1969, proto-punk outfits such as Zuno Keisatsu (Brain P...