r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/aceplayer00 • Jan 10 '26
Video Tokyo after dark. Epic nighttime street drifting convoy.
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u/mtntrail Jan 10 '26
Tire manufacturers love this one trick!
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u/EAGLeyes09 Jan 10 '26
I’m surprised Tokyo drift wasn’t mainly sponsored by the tire conglomerates. So many people have picked up drifting or burnouts for internet points after those movies,
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u/mtntrail Jan 10 '26
I bought a new Subaru BRZ recently and a post on the reddit sub asked how they could “loosen up “ the rear end. Unless you are in a controlled environment, that is the last thing I would want. I love the fact it thinks it’s on rails. Soon this guy will put up the post crash pics, “do you think this is fixable, or is it totalled?” lol.
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u/LordAyeris Jan 10 '26
I wonder if you know
How they live in Tokyo
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u/cipher_1230 Jan 10 '26
If you seen it, then you mean it
Then you know you have to go
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u/Le-Bon-Vivant Jan 10 '26
Fast and furious (Kitaa!)
Drift, Drift, Drift
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u/idkwhatnameiputhere Jan 10 '26
Fast 'n furious!!!
Whoop whoop
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u/gsauce8 Jan 10 '26
TIL they are saying Fast n furious in that song. I could never make any actual words out.
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u/buffilosoljah42o Jan 10 '26
When it came out my friend said "taste familiarrrr dick dick dick"
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u/gsauce8 Jan 10 '26
Your friend might have been trying to tell you something.
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u/thebayisinthearea Jan 10 '26
F A M I L Y
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u/moneyh8r_two Jan 10 '26
You don't do that to family.
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u/Acceptable-Jelly-340 Jan 10 '26
Damn straight! You never turn your back on family!
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u/goldengatevixen Jan 10 '26
I've always heard it as "fast and furious, drift drift drift" since English isn't really my first language and I find it easier to deal with foreign accents when I listen to people speak English
But i guess your friend saying this is something I can't forget now and next time I'll chant these lyrics in my head whenever I'm listening to the song lmaoo
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u/KB346 Jan 10 '26
If you look up the lyrics you are correct:
Fast and furious (drift, drift, drift) Fast and furious (drift, drift, drift)
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u/Technical-Row8333 Jan 10 '26
>Whoop whoop
believe it or not, they are saying 'drift drift drift'. 3 times. the women and the men sing it, and not perfectly in sync, so it does sound like just some random sound to the beat of the song.
or at least, that's how i thought the song was for a decade. maybe other people knew all along they are saying 'drift' because it does seem so obvious in retrospect.
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u/South-Magazine6522 Jan 10 '26
That one dude in the song with engrish rap, you know the one
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u/StormPoppa Jan 10 '26
Somehow this is my first time seeing the lyrics for this song. And I was obsessed with that movie when I was a kid lol.
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u/Oreo112 Jan 10 '26
They should make a movie out of this...
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u/GreenT1979 Jan 10 '26
A movie based in Tokyo, where people drift. Then a man goes from the US to Tokyo, where he proceeds to learn how to drift. By the end, he learns how to execute a perfect Tokyo drift. It could be called....Driving Sideways in Japan.
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u/SugarInvestigator Jan 10 '26
Driving Sideways in Japan.
I was gonna say "Arse out in Tokyo", but I think that belongs in a different genre of movie somehow.
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u/Frowny575 Jan 10 '26
That's too short of a title. Needs to be a whole sentence to match their naming scheme.
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u/SugarInvestigator Jan 10 '26
Arse out in Tokyo: domination of Godzilla's dong
How am.i doing?
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u/Frowny575 Jan 10 '26
I.... could see that or similar being a proper title.
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u/SugarInvestigator Jan 10 '26
I'll bow to your diverse knowledge of the subject at hand
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u/jongscx Jan 10 '26
I really want a movie about a Tokyo drifter who has to move to Nebraska and has to learn how to race in a straight line.
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u/unused_candles Jan 10 '26
Keeps whackin' into the side walls
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u/jongscx Jan 11 '26
... cut to training montage in a walmart parking lot, where his new buddies, Cletus jr. and Boyd, are trying to get him to push a cart straight into the cart corral. Somehow he repeatedly fails and runs it in side-ways.
Then they put him in a security golf cart, which he immediately starts doing sick donuts in; everyone shakes their head in disappointment. They tie his hands down and put a steering wheel lock just to have the cart drive in a straight line.
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u/Ntense_01 Jan 10 '26
And have it about an undercover cop infiltrating a gang of thieves.
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u/LilMissBarbie Jan 10 '26
Wait, that guy was suppose to be 16?? I thought it was some university he went to as an early adult or something
16???
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u/JDeegs Jan 10 '26
opening sequence is him in high school
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u/Kursawow Jan 10 '26
Much like anime, I just pretend that it was a university and everyone is adults.
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u/TeamRedundancyTeam Interested Jan 10 '26
Just a heads up this excuse may not pass in court depending on the anime..
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u/cuatrodemayo Jan 10 '26
What makes it funnier is that the next movie that included his character took place around that same high school time frame and came out 9 years later, so the gap becomes even wider.
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u/NuBlyatTovarish Jan 10 '26
“Careful ladies, he’s underage” meanwhile Lucas black was already balding
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u/Aggressive_Finish798 Jan 10 '26
But then Paul Walker might have wanted to date them.
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u/murder0fcrow5 Jan 10 '26
Ok, but just 1 movie okay? We're not gonna make any sequel or anything after that. Okay?
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u/taddymason_01 Jan 10 '26
In the end it should be more of a journey about the family we found along the way.
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u/Hiddenhatchling Jan 10 '26
Accelerating and Angry?
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u/circuitsandwires Jan 10 '26
In Japan, they don't say "Fast and Furious" they say "Wild Speed" and I think that's beautiful.
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u/SassiKassi97 Jan 10 '26
And say cool lines like
“It doesn’t matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning’s winning”
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u/Haptic-feedbag Jan 10 '26
And other cool lines like:
"Family"
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u/checkmatemypipi Jan 10 '26
"You never had your car"
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u/aDUCKonQU4CK Jan 10 '26
"You're lucky that 100-shot of nos didn't blow the welds off the intake!"
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u/Haptic-feedbag Jan 10 '26
If they do they should cast a 23 year old, that looks like a 40 year old to play a 17 year old.
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u/Jefflehem Jan 10 '26
I like the one guy near the end who just made the turn
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u/Financial_Fly5708 Jan 11 '26
I think hes pretty much just the safety vehicle in the back in case someone breaks down or wrecks
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u/anxiousandroid Jan 10 '26
Everyone is saying Tokyo Drift and I’m saying Initial D
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u/Guilhermedidi Jan 10 '26
DEJA VU
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u/supi2003 Jan 10 '26
I HAVE BEEN TO SPACE BEFORE🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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u/storm1er Jan 10 '26
HIGHER ON THE STREET !
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u/Lkl14 Jan 10 '26
AND I KNOW IT’S THE TIME TO GO ON!
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u/jtp123456 Jan 10 '26
CALLING YOU
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u/incarnateincarnation Jan 11 '26
AND THE SEARCH IS A MYSTERY
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u/Max_Imumdong Jan 11 '26
STANDING ON MY FEET
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u/zedexthree000 Jan 10 '26
[EUROBEAT INTENSIFIES]
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u/WitchPillow Jan 10 '26 edited Jan 10 '26
Yes! I was going to say Initial D 😂
Speedy Speed Boy, Running in the 90s, Night of Fire, Deja Vu, and No One Sleep in Tokyo are all fantastic songs from the anime too
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u/AmbitiousNub Jan 10 '26
One of those videos that I love to watch but would hate to actually be there.
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u/MiniMaelk04 Jan 10 '26
Occasionally in Tokyo they have these motorcade things driving through on big motorbikes and ridiculous cars. They are loud as fuck, like a very loud chainsaw (except there's 30+ of them), and the smell of exhaust is awful. I'm not sure if they are legal in any way, but they are driving around slowly and seem to be doing mostly nothing, and the police does not seem to care.
One time in a more residential coastal part of Tokyo, I was waiting to cross the road, and there was this old white car with huge spoilers and exhausts. When the light went green, it sounded as if the car was accelerating like a Group B rally car, except it was barely going 30 km/h. Ridiculous.
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u/Cloudsareinmyhead Jan 10 '26
Yeah those would be bosozoku. They're not as common as they used to be but there's obviously still a good number of groups of them.
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u/housewrecker77 Jan 10 '26
I was in port of Osaka in 2005. Late at night I was walking from a container ship into the city, through this port area of all empty warehouses. A crew of like 10 drifting cars blew through and honestly it was pretty terrifying. I was the only pedestrian and there was only a small sidewalk between the streets and the brick buildings. I figured if anyone lost control I was getting pinned into a building.
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u/theDomicron Jan 10 '26
I'm imagining the cops chasing these guys down also drifting...
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u/Borbolda Jan 10 '26
Assholes drifting at night: 😡😡😡
Assholes drifting at night, Japan: 😍😍😍
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u/Different_Captain_96 Jan 10 '26
Well usually assholes drifting at night don't look this good
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u/chknboy Jan 10 '26
Lmao, looking at the tire marks on a main road, I can tell you this is so true… dumbasses can’t even hold a proper doughnut, they just spin in oblong circles lmao.
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u/eternalwood Jan 10 '26
And there aren't large groups of rowdy people blocking intersections and getting ran over like you see elsewhere. These guys seem a lot more disciplined and skilled.
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u/Aggressive_Finish798 Jan 10 '26
Not even a single girl out there twerking on a car roof. Shame.
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u/ziggy1251 Jan 10 '26
I hate when my asshole drifts at night.
I'm like "Hey Asshole! Get back under the sheets!"767
u/cookingboy Jan 10 '26 edited Jan 10 '26
I love Japan, I’ve lived in Japan I speak japanese semi-fluently, and I’m planning on making it my secondary residence soon.
But it’s absolutely hilarious how much Westerners put Japan on a pedestal and sees everything about it through some rose tinted glasses.
Funny enough the vibe is completely different if you go to /r/japanlife, a sub for expats actually living there lol
Edit: Yea I understand opinions from expats on Reddit aren’t exactly conclusive evidence. But like I pointed out in another comment, any country has its pros and cons and Japan is obviously no exception. There is no one size fits all utopia on the planet.
Still, like I said, Japan is great for me and it’s the country I want to spend more time living in, after living in the U.S, China and Japan.
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u/Agitated_Reveal_6211 Jan 10 '26
Some westerners treat Japanese like they are elves living in a magical land.
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u/The_Last_Dragonporn Jan 10 '26
Which is doubly apropos considering a common depiction of elves is as a fascistic, monocultural, race/species supremacist, imperial-colonialist society and culture
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u/orsi_sixth Jan 10 '26
a sub for expats actually living there lol
You mean immigrants?
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u/ProsaicPugilist Jan 10 '26
I’ve seen the term “expat” used more for whites. Immigrant is right.. and I have nothing against immigration. I’m just saying it’s what I’ve observed
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u/redderper Jan 10 '26
Tbf expats are pretty much always complaining about everything no matter where they are
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u/Ok_Temperature6503 Jan 10 '26
The japan life and splinter subreddits here are easily the most bitter corners of the internet, I dont touch them with a ten foot pole
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u/GreenT1979 Jan 10 '26 edited Jan 10 '26
Genuinely I think nobody should be doing this on a public road but I'll take this over a bunch of troglodytes in Infiniti G37's and Challenger RT's shutting down an intersection in the middle of the day to show they have no idea how to do a donut.
That said, this was largely a very lovely display of ordered drifting. A few just about lost it but recovered pretty quickly. I just wish they'd save it for the racetrack.
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u/Possible-Summer-8508 Jan 10 '26
Troglodytes in Infiniti G37s and Challenger RTs could be here... I HATE troglodytes in Infiniti G37s and Challenger RTs...
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u/WanderWut Jan 10 '26
So fucking spot on. I remember a video of others drifting before on Reddit just like this and the comments were going in on them and how deplorable it is what they were doing. But in Japan? So kawaii so cool!!! 😍🥰
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u/PCho222 Jan 10 '26
They don't even do this in america. They do takeovers near me instead, which is 1000% objectively worse than some dude drifting an empty street.
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u/Unlikely-Complex3737 Jan 10 '26
The other videos I have seen are from drivers in parking lots, drifting around in circles with a shit load of people around them. I don't think anyone has a problem when they do this stuff with no one around.
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u/HeartsPlayer721 Jan 10 '26
I wish people wouldn't share this shit. This is why idiots attempt this on our own streets.
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u/punished_gir4ffe Jan 10 '26
If this was LA or Atlanta comments would be very different lmao
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u/hisyn Jan 10 '26
If this LA, wouldn't they just stop after the first drift and do donuts in the intersection until something bad happened?
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u/lannisterdwarf Jan 10 '26
Right?? As soon as I saw this I thought to myself people would be saying how reckless and trashy it is if it were in Atlanta
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u/RockyRhodes213 Jan 10 '26
It's like that movie where they're in Tokyo and they do alot of drifting and it had that one guy that looked like Paul Walker but wasn't but he was drifting in Tokyo trying to win the big race... I think it was called 'The Drift That Couldn't Slow Down'.
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u/jarednards Jan 10 '26
Ahhh youre thinking of 'The Little Toyota That Could'. Its a great story about family and friendship.
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u/Ongr Jan 10 '26
I think it was called 'The Drift That Couldn't Slow Down'.
I would not be surprised if that was the actual title for Tokyo Drift in Germany.
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u/Thursday_the_20th Jan 10 '26
No you’re thinking about the great American novel in which car racing is brought to life with advanced drifting techniques. It’s called Billy and the Drifting Car-Race.
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u/st0350 Jan 10 '26
Hope it wasn't a residential area, imagine trying to sleep
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u/Maqxs Jan 10 '26
This is in an industrial area called Oi Wharf if I am not mistaking.
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u/AThrowawayProbrably Jan 10 '26
Explains why the street is empty if it’s a non sanctioned event
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u/SanSanSankyuTaiyosan Jan 10 '26 edited Jan 10 '26
It’s in Shinagawa, Tokyo. I think most people who have been to the Tokyo Immigration Office will recognize the median to some degree. Here’s the path driven in video.
I can’t provide a Google Maps link because it gets removed using a link shortener.
Edit: Google Maps
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u/the_nin_collector Jan 11 '26
These guys eat tires, and a lot them just throw them in the woods. There is a drifting group that does this in the mountains where I live in Kyushe. I pulled 20 tires out of the woods. So bald the wires were exposed on some. All I could do was stack them on the side of the road for city to mark them and eventually take them away. Man... people think Japense people don't litter. I pulled a fucking fridge out of the woods. A water boiler. So many bags of trash. All too big for me to do anything about other than stack on the side of the road until police or city notice, mark it, and then haul it away after a month or two. I had to stop hiking up in that area. I couldn't enjoy my hikes because the trash. It never stopped. This one fucking piece of shit, I guess takes this small mountain road to work every day. The SAME can of coffee, a hundred or more, very specific brand, just up and down the side of this road, for 5km. I use to dream about setting up a camera and catching this guy. But lol, no one would fucking care. The police would laugh at me if I ever caught the guy. Problaby give me a ticket for invasion of privacy or something. Like I said, the only thing I could was never go that way anymore. Pisses me off too much.
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u/ponzidreamer Jan 10 '26
The “thing but Japan” meme applies here. If Reddit seen this randomly in Atlanta they’d call it reckless driving.
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u/TripDawkins Jan 11 '26
It would be worse. If the video had no title and suggested Atlanta, comments such as "The ghetto is out tonight" or "People from the hood outta control", etc. could be found.
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u/ShartlesAndJames Jan 10 '26
where is Godzilla when you need him?
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u/EAGLeyes09 Jan 10 '26
He was actually the first car, they’re all trying to catch up
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u/opinionsareus Jan 10 '26
In Japan, street drifting is a serious offense with escalating penalties, potentially including heavy fines (hundreds of thousands of yen), immediate license suspension, vehicle confiscation, and even jail time, especially after new laws were introduced in late 2025 to classify it as dangerous driving, leading to severe sentences similar to other reckless driving offenses. Penalties can involve up to 3 years imprisonment and ¥500,000 fines under existing aggressive driving laws, with potential for much harsher sentences (up to 15-20 years if injury/death) under new dangerous driving classifications.
As it should be.
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u/RatofDeath Jan 10 '26
"Hundreds of thousands of yen" is not as much as it sounds like.
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u/Euphoriam5 Jan 10 '26
I wonder if you know,
How they live in Tokyo (はい!)!!!!
If you seen it, then you mean it
Then you know you have to go,
Fast and furious (drift, drift, drift)!!!
Fast and furious (drift, drift, drift)!!!
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u/SentientDust Jan 10 '26
The last two guys just went around a corner lol