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Ask any serious time attack enthusiast worldwide what lap time genuinely means something, and there's a real chance they...

Tucked into the Fukushima countryside, on land that once belonged to a single drift racer's family, sits what may be the...

While WRC Rally Japan (covered in more detail elsewhere in this guide series) represents Japan's brief but genuine chapt...

Japan's relationship with Formula 1 stretches back to 1964, when Honda became the first Japanese constructor to enter th...

While Super GT and Super Formula command most international attention among Japan's top-tier racing series, Super Taikyu...

While Super GT covered elsewhere in this guide series holds the title of Japan's most popular production-based racing se...

The late 1980s and early 1990s produced two genuinely spectacular parallel racing eras in Japan — Group A touring car co...

No single motorsport achievement did more for Japanese manufacturer credibility on the world's biggest endurance racing ...

No car did more to establish Japan's automotive engineering credibility on the world stage than the Toyota 2000GT — a ge...

The Mazda Cosmo holds a genuinely unique place in automotive history as the car that launched Mazda's decades-long rotar...

Long before "hot hatch" became a globally recognized performance category, Toyota was already proving the formula could ...

Before the GT-R badge existed on any Skyline generation, Nissan's flagship performance sedan was already building the te...

If any single car defined what a naturally aspirated front-wheel-drive performance car could genuinely achieve, it's the...

Few JDM performance cars carry as legitimate a motorsport pedigree as the Toyota Celica GT-Four — a genuine homologation...

The Mazda RX-8 solved two genuine engineering puzzles that most sports cars never even attempt simultaneously: how to fi...

Overshadowed for decades by its more famous Skyline platform-mate, the Nissan Laurel is finally getting genuine enthusia...

Among the great underappreciated stories of 1990s JDM performance cars is the Mitsubishi GTO, a genuine technology showc...

Few JDM nicknames capture a car's character quite as directly as "baby Ferrari," the affectionate label enthusiasts gave...

Few naturally aspirated production engines have ever matched what Honda achieved with the S2000's original F20C — a 2.0-...

Long before the Lexus LS or LC existed, Toyota already had a dedicated halo car proving out the technology that would ev...