Weel, seeing as I consider myself something of an expert on this matter *cough*arrogant*cough*, I figure I ought to say something, but be warned, most of these are not popular on the slightest.
There's visual kei, which you probably know as a music genre but it's a subculture as well, and it's many subtypes: Angura kei, Oshare kei, and KoteKote being a few.
Bosozoku biker gangs, which explain themselves. Wear jumpsuits.
Lolita, and it's equally large amount of subgenres.
Neo victorian, Aristocrat, Madam, and EGA which are for lolis which grew up a bit and is basically various styles of Victoriana inspired clothing.
Cosplay, Otaku, and anime fandom, obv.
Wota, fans of japanese idol singers.
Decora, often mistakenly called FRUiTS after the magazine which popularized it.
Gyaru, kogal, ganguro and the like deserve a mention as well.
Kegadoru, Maid cafes, akibakei, and other such akihabara culture.
Natural kei, a forerunner of Lolita, but that scene is mostly dead nowadays, which is a shame 'cause they rocked.
Theres Nip Hop, which suprise suprise is japanese hip hop.
And they do borrow some of or trends, remember. You'll find goths/emos/preps etc over there, maybe not as many but they're there. Thankfully normally not chavs, though.
And who could forget japanese schoolgirls, not a subculture as such, but still the amount of them wearing teir uniforms around town makes them a part of J-culture.
There are prolly more, but thats all that comes to mind. And you'll all be bored to death by now...
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