When it comes to RWB RAUH-Welt BEGRIFF I think you’ll know this familiar face – Nojima Yusuke-San, the painter of these amazing porches that roll out of Chiba Japan. Here are a couple of photos I captured a day prior to an Idlers meeting last year, prepping the infamous AE86 x

Hot pair at Nikko Circuit x

Nojima Yusuke and his RWB 86 x

One of the coolest 86’s in Japan throwing down a perfect run at MSC – YZ Circuit. Unforgettable event x

Characterised levin hatch sitting pretty on Minami course, Ebisu Circuit x

With all my Japanese photos spread across terabytes and terabytes of hard-drives there is one realist that came to mind – Yusuke Nojima-San. I thought I would share this particular shot specifically for 8/6 Day 2012. This day was definitely a highlight on my most recent trip to the motherland. I got to spend the day with part of the RWB Family being Shinji and Nojima. Personally I don’t think we could have picked a better location to contrast the serious looking circuit car. I hope you all enjoy and hope you’ve had a killer day in remembering such a inspiring chassis x

The BRIDE setup at MSC Challenge YZ Circuit x

Fumihiko Ogita-san and his Levin Coupe – Motorland Suzuka

Here is a photo of Team ISE Works ☆ on the trailer after a full day of drifting at Motorland Suzuka. One thing I was surprised with was the amount of stickers and signs I saw around, especially on cars “PRAY FOR JAPAN”, “HOPE FOR JAPAN” etc. I even bought a few at the Wreck `Em Meihan Drift Day to show my support which is still stuck on my Pelican hard-case. As a matter in fact we managed to raise over $800.00 for the Japanese earlier this year so for those who donated I really appreciate it, well done.

Last Thursday – 7 days ago I sent 10 sheets of negative 35mm film and 1 roll of black and white film to film guru, Christopher S Cain in Northern New Zealand. Day in, day out I have been annoying the hell out of Chris asking if the film has arrived and I’ve gotten the same reply the past 5 days, no. Today he sent over a file which was 0.5gb in size and asked for me to download it. He said he hasn’t exposed thing to anyone so I was eager to see. It turns out it’s one of the very first rolls of film I shot in Japan, in other words, the film has landed in New Zealand and Chris has started scanning and processing my images to the computer. From here on in there will be a lot of misc photos from Japan, still plenty of cars and drifting but also sights. First up we have this gorgeous shot of Fumihiko Ogita-sans Levin Coupe from Team ISE Works  ☆. Have a fun and safe weekend everybody. Casey x