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About Drift Japan:
This is the official blog of clothing line Drift Japan. I’m sure you’ve seen whack drift designs with stupid sayings, ugly colors, and no style. Drift Japan was created to remedy this issue; a motorsport fashion brand aimed at creating cool drifting t-shirts with underground street racing style that showed respect to the country where drifting began - JAPAN.
Keiichi “Drift King” Tsuchiya says you can drift anything with four wheels, so that makes everyone driving a car a potential drifter. Drifting in Japan has been commercially popular for twenty years and now drifting is rapidly building a fan base in North America, Australia, UK, and Malaysia. Drift Japan is excited about the potential for drifting motorsports worldwide and hopes Drift Japan can add to the culture and encourage drivers to have more fun with their cars.
A Brief History of Drifting:
The Japanese towns of Rokkosan, Hakone, Irohazaka, and various hill climbs in Nagano are all steeped in legends of the origins of drifting. No one can pinpoint for certain drifting’s birthplace but the movement started in the mid 1960s.
Like many forms of professional racing today, modern drifting evolved from a form of illegal street racing held on windy mountain roads called touge. Eventually, these touge racers began to adopt driving techniques used by rally drivers to help maintain their momentum through corners. From touge, drifting was born.
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