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Getting a Japanese Driver’s License, Part 4: Getting a Japanese Driver’s License

The most expensive piece of plastic in my wallet.

May 20th, 2010

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Getting a Japanese Driver’s License, Part 3: Failing

Better luck next time.

May 13th, 2010

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Getting a Japanese Driver’s License, Part 2: Practice

Reporting back in with progress from the J-License acquisition quest…

April 21st, 2010

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Cool Car Sightings #2

Lancia Delta, some rare Subarus and more…

April 16th, 2010

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Getting a Japanese Driver’s License: Part 1

Documenting the process of getting a MT driver’s license in Kagoshima Prefecture.

March 10th, 2010

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Cool Car Sightings #1

This is the first in what I expect to be an ongoing collection of snapshots. There are plenty of incredibly high-performance (and, reciprocally, incredibly low-performance) cars roaming the streets. If only their existence here wasn’t pure irony, with standard 50km/h speed limits and 100km/h max on the expressway. If you are caught at over 120km/h […]

February 25th, 2010

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Subaru STi Gallery, Mitaka

Back when I arrived in July, I took some time to visit Subaru’s STi Gallery in Mitaka, Tokyo. The showroom itself is pretty sparse, but you do get a first hand view of one of Subaru’s debut rally cars, the 1993 Legacy RS driven by the late, great Colin McRae in Rally New Zealand. So, […]

September 1st, 2009

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