He also returned to touring car racing in the Japanese Touring Car Championship, finishing seventh in 1990 and 1991 in a BMW M3.

Group A stopped being used in touring car racing in 1994, when the German Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft ( DTM ) switched to a 2. 5 L class 1 formula, while in Japan by that year as the Japanese Touring Car Championship organisers followed suit and switched classes like most other countries who had adopted the British Touring Car Championship-derived Supertouring regulations, many of the redundant Skylines found a new home in the form of the JGTC ( Japanese GT Championship ) with modified aerodynamic devices, showing its competitiveness whilst being up against Group C, former race modified roadcars and specially developed racers, like the Toyota Supras during the earlier years.

He would continue to take part in the Japanese Formula Three Championship, Japanese Touring Car Championship ( JTCC ), the latter while driving a Nissan Skyline GT-R ( previously in the Cosmo Oil Sierra Cosworth ) in the Group A championships and later a Honda Civic in the Supertouring car championships.

The R32 GT-R dominated Japanese Touring Car Championship ( JTCC ), winning 29 races from 29 starts, taking the series title every year from 1989 to 1993.

* 1985 Inter TEC ( Japanese Touring Car Championship ( JTC )) 4th

He won the Japanese Touring Car Championship in 1989, 1991 and 1992.

An advanced version of this engine exists ( though not in a production form ) that campaigned briefly in the 2004 Japanese SuperGT racing series ( see All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship ) by the factory-supported Team Honda Racing group in highly modified GT-spec NSXs.

Although X100 Chasers took part in the Japanese Touring Car Championship in the 1990s, the Chaser truly shone in drifting events, due to its traditional front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout.

The JGTC ( Japanese Grand Touring Championship ) — established in 1993 by the JAF ( Japanese Automobile Federation ) via its subsidiary company the GT-A ( GT Association ) — replaced the defunct All Japan Sports Prototype Championship for Group C cars ( that was terminated by the end of 1994 ) and in the same year Japanese Touring Car Championship for Group A touring cars, which would adopt the supertouring formula which was used worldwide.

The Nissan Stagea commonly referred to as the Skyline wagon when the 2. 6L twin turbo is fitted, ( although it is based on the similar C34 Laurel platform ) is a station wagon originally produced by Nissan in 1996 as direct competition for the Subaru Legacy Touring wagon in the Japanese Domestic Market.

He was German Formula 3 Champion in 1991, Japanese Formula 3 champion in 1993, and runner-up in the Japanese Touring Car Championship ( JTCC ) in 1992 and 1994.

Some series however, would change the rules to suit crowd demands, and competition from rival series, one example, was the Japanese Touring Car Championship ( JTCC ), which made increases to body width and exhaust noise, also keeping the front aerodynamic devices basic in 1997 and in 1998 with the withdrawal of Nissan due to financial problems and Honda, to commit to its Formula One ( F1 ) programme, and realising it would be less expensive for them to race their NSX in the All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship ( JGTC ), leaving Toyota as the sole factory manufacturer to compete using their Corona EXIVs and Chasers.

He spent many years in Formula Three and other junior single-seater championships, winning the Japanese Formula Three Championship in 1992 and winning Japanese GT championship races, but his success has mostly been with a roof over his head, firstly in sportscars and later in Touring car racing.

Kenjiro Den, Rokuro Aoyama, and Meitaro Takeuchi were 3 financial backers and friends for one of the originators of the Japanese automobile industry, Masujiro Hashimoto, who founded Kaishinsha Jidosha Koto, or “ Kaishinsha Motor Car Works ” in 1911.

Japanese Car.

Previous examples were the Japanese series programs Masterforce and Car Robots.

The one exception to this naming convention is Car Robots, where the sub-group referred to as " Decepticons " in the Robots in Disguise adaptation, is known in Japan as the Combatrons ( the Japanese name of the G1 subgroup known as the Combaticons ).

In the first episode the GRX's speedometer with a maximum speed of on it is shown in the beginning of the episode, however, due to a continuity error in the Japanese animation, as Speed drives it, the speedometer tops out at This would make the GRX slower than the Mammoth Car by the English dialog.

As of October 2006 the RX-8 has won at least 37 international motoring awards including 2003 International Engine of the Year, the 2003 Japanese Car of the Year, Australia's Wheels magazine's Car of the Year for 2003, the 2004 Singapore Car of the Year, the 2004 U. S. Best Sports Car, and several UK Best Car Awards.

* VIP style, sometimes known as VIP Car, a Japanese car customisation

*** Tokyu Car Corporation, a Japanese railway vehicle manufacturer

* July 5 – 11 – Aircraft from the British aircraft carriers HMS Ameer and HMS Emperor strike Japanese airfields and shipping at Car Nicobar.

Like all other cars used on public roads in Ireland, Japanese imports have to pass the National Car Test.

Japanese NSX Police Car ( Tochigi Prefectural Police )

The one exception to this naming convention is Car Robots, where the sub-group referred to as " Decepticons " in the Robots in Disguise adaptation, is known in Japan as the Combatrons ( the Japanese name of the G1 subgroup known as the Combaticons ).

In 1991, he competed in one race in the Japanese Formula 3000 Championship, finishing second.

Category: Japanese Formula 3000 Championship drivers

Senna joined Prost at McLaren in 1988 and the two had a series of controversial clashes, including a collision at the 1989 Japanese Grand Prix that gave Prost his third Drivers ' Championship.

* All Japan Sports Prototype Championship – Japanese series for Gr. C cars, replaced by JGTC in 1993.

Both the 1989 Championship won by Prost and the 1990 Championship won by Senna were decided by collisions between them at those years ' Japanese Grands Prix.

The next year, he won the Japanese Championship, and again entered the Japanese Grand Prix with a wild card, winning the race at this occasion.

After Blassie lost the WWA World Heavyweight Championship to Rikidōzan in Los Angeles, the two had a rematch on live Japanese television.

WOWOW has also screened Ultimate Fighting Championship events for Japanese audiences, the Korean drama My Name is Kim Sam Soon and the UK comedy sketch show Little Britain, as well as the British drama / action show Ultimate Force under the name SAS: British Special Forces.

On August 19, 1969 the 51st annual Japanese High School Baseball Championship was held in Misawa.

Traditionally one of the last, if not the last race of the season, the Japanese Grand Prix has been the venue for many title-deciding races, with 13 World Champions being crowned over the 27 World Championship Japanese Grands Prix that have been hosted.

Category: Japanese Formula 3000 Championship drivers

He won one race each in 1990 and 1991 in the Japanese Sports Prototype Championship with the same SARD team he drove for at Le Mans.

Success at both Suzuka and Adelaide for the Japanese and the Australian Grands Prix, including pole positions in both events and the fastest lap in Adelaide, ensured Ferrari and Berger went into the winter season with boosted confidence and both team and driver were tipped as favourites for the 1988 Championship.

* Super Spike V ' Ball ( Japanese: U. S. Championship V ' Ball ): 11 / 10 / 1989

Recently, in the Japanese media there has been a rumor of an implementation for a playoff system for J1 Championship or creating new Japanese Premier League with fewer clubs.

During the subsequent year, she won 3rd place in the Japanese National Junior High School Tennis Championship.

In 1988 Date won the Invitational All-Japan Junior Indoor Championship ( for both women single and doubles ), the Japanese National High School Athlete Meet ( for singles and doubles ), the Japanese All-Japan Junior Tennis Tournament Under-18 ( for singles and doubles ), and the International Women Circuit, and Masters.

He caught the attention of foreign clubs with his performance at the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship in Nigeria, where he captained the Japanese Under-20 side that reached the final.