One among many drivers I really love.. gotta have Nobuteru Taniguchi and Manabu Orido in there as well.. I must agree with you, not many people know a lot about Japan or its heritage. I guess I can say that I'm quite familiar with its history
thanks to the Japan course I recently completed.
I think there's sort of a "jdm" side that we see over here in the US, but it's a lot different once you really research into it.