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KDAY!! Is One Of Japan’s Best-Kept Secrets…

October 8, 2023 0 comments

I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Takeshi Kobayashi for over a decade now but have never actually been to one of his Kday!! events. It’s an annual car show he does every year and though I’ve been to Japan many, many, times, I’ve just never made my way up to Miyagi Prefecture during Fall. After my trip to Australia, I decided to head to Japan for a few weeks and it just so happened that Kday!! was happening the same month. Yasu had planned to attend with his newly-finished USDM Civic coupe so everything just sort of fell into place. Not only would be be able to present the Civic in its near-final form, I’d finally have the opportunity to experience Takeshi’s labor of love in his hometown…

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Kday C8! Japan Coverage… Part 3…

September 23, 2019 1 comment

If you love your ’90s Hondas this is going to be a good post for you guys to kick-off your work week. In the final portion of our Kday! C8 Coverage, we look specifically at some of the cars from Japan that helped to really bring an audience to The […]

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Kday C8! Japan Coverage… Part 2…

September 19, 2019 0 comments

Let’s jump right back into the Kday! C8 photos which I totally forgot to post after the event itself happened almost a year ago. By this time, the latest Kday! C9 event will have already happened and from the photos that I’ve seen on Instagram, it looked like another great […]

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Kday C8! Japan Coverage… Part 1…

September 13, 2019 0 comments

Once upon a time, some 365 days ago, my good friend Takeshi Kobayashi’s annual event, Kday!, happened. You’re only seeing the photos surface now here on The Chronicles a year later because I am a complete asshole and just never found time to post them up. There was a time […]

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Kday! C6 2016 Coverage…Part 4 of 4…

November 14, 2016 1 comment

Man, I’ve been so productive lately, it’s crazy. I mean, I feel like I haven’t slept a whole lot in the last few days but it is definitely worth the sacrifice to get all this content finished up from the last few weeks. Tiffanie had to go out of town […]

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Kday! C6 2016 Coverage…Part 3…

November 9, 2016 3 comments

Oh shit. I am so behind on content. There has just been so much going on lately that I just haven’t been able to sit down to post stuff up. I’m trying to get all the videos together so they post on a more consistent schedule but the photo coverage […]

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Kday! C6 2016 Coverage…Part 2…

October 21, 2016 1 comment

I feel like every time we look at photos from a Kday! event, it almost seems as if we are all taken on a time warp into a place where 80s and 90s custom car builds reigned supreme. The event feels like something straight out of a time capsule and it almost […]

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Kday! C6 2016 Coverage…Part 1…

October 19, 2016 0 comments

Somewhere, in an alternate universe than that of the car community we have grown-up knowing, there exists a place in Sendai, Japan, where USDM car culture is revered. In this story arc, enthusiasts attempt to build and style their cars to resemble vehicles from North America. Some are highly modified, […]

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