Mobo Meanings...In the 1920's Japanese youth, who wore western clothes and assimilated western ideals, called themselves modern boys or Mobo.MoboKanji translation:To search while standing still and wandering.English derivation (slang) from Mobius, Inventor of famous paper strip science experiment.Apragmatic example of illusion and perception.Alludes to the integration of East and West into symbiotic world culture.