Japanese car culture had a main start when the R32 came out then about twenty years later the era ended in about 2005 when cars became heavy and slow. The 1980s had to be the introduction of Japanese car culture(JCC). Because, like I said before, the R32 came out in Japan and sparked a plug. After that it was a road of JCC success with a love of inline engines Subaru released their main cars like the STI and the legacy GT Mazda with the RX-7 and MX-5 Miata.
JCC was all over the place and from continent to continent, the reason everybody loved them is because they looked amazing mixed with the fact of how great most of their performance was. The large quantity of JCC was drift cars like the toyota supra (above). Yet there was also a strong offroad car, the Subaru Impreza 22B STI and the normal STI. The 22B was more of a special edition car that is extremely rare, it has an inline four turbocharged engine that lots of people would kill for. Then there is a very different story with the 2JZ-GTE twin turbocharged toyota supra, one of the most loved drift cars there is. There is not as much to say about this car except wait, it was one of the most iconic cars from fast and furious. It made an appearance as an orange and green gymkhana (kind of) car, because it can drift, drag race and street race how? Now to racing the Honda NSX was and still is (in my opinion) the best looking Japanese car there is with stiff competition. It had a rear engined V6 and it came in red almost all the time, the reason that it was common in red is because it was the competition against Ferrari with the F-40, it even looked like them too.
JCC also was competing with another region euro with Volkswagen as the main competidor being the most successful car company in the world. What made its success at destroying the Japanese market was the golf in almost all forms like the GTI, TSI and TDI. with GTI meaning grand touring injection, TSI Turbocharged Stratified Injection and TDI turbo diesel injection.
So to round that up the JCC has a wide variety of cars, and has a main competition of euro cars. For racing I could name a few more cars like the Nissan R34 for example and drifting almost never ends with unlimited options to use. They also make some of the best first cars like the honda civic, Subaru impreza and Toyota corolla.