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A team of masked up youth that approach us from the garage seem a little hesitant to say hi.

They're not menacing, not at all.

If anything, they seem a little bit shy.

They're all either late teens or mid-20s.

Behind them, in the garage with its now raised shutter, there's a collection of brightly coloured civics with roof to tire decals, painted bonnets and nets in the windows.

These are to obscure the view to stop the police seeing who's driving.

An older man who owns the garage approaches and explains to us that this is the base of Across Racing.

As I look a bit closer, I notice all the civics have the Across logo emblazoned over their back windows.

Across is a ragtag street racing crew that hits the Kanjio loop with their distinctive cars.

Many of them here have decorated their paintwork with Marlborough cigarette packet designs.

Not to promote smoking, but the design on a car is just very cool, I'll be honest.

One of the civics that really stands out belongs to the only woman on the team.

Her name is Menma and her Civic is bright turquoise blue with white bordered decals and shiny stickers making out the word across on the back.

Underground street racing in Japan is a male dominated world.

I go as far to say that it's 99% men that are involved.

Menma is an anomaly in this scene.

She's small with huge bright eyes and dyed blonde hair poking out of her balaclava.

She wears high top night dunks in the same white and turquoise colours of her car.

It is a very cool look.

She's shy, but she agrees to talk a little.

Usually, there's not many women in the racing scene here.

You're one of the only ones.

As I'm a woman, I need to race in a way so I don't get disrespected.

What is it you like about street racing?

Final street.

I like this the most.

Or a circuit.

As long as I can race.

Obviously this is very illegal here in Japan.

What would happen if the police caught you?

We run away.

Does your family know you do this?

Racing?

Sometimes.

Culture in Japan is quite conservative.

Illegal street racing is obviously something that a lot of people here wouldn't like.

What do you think the reaction would be if people knew you were doing this?

I think they would think it's a nuisance, but more fun, which wins, so I keep racing.

It makes it more fun.

Okay.

What do you think about the police here?

I'm sure it's tough for them and they probably have a lot on, but it'd be nice if they spent their time on things other than civics.

Without revealing too much about about yourself, when you're not racing, what do you do like in normal life?

If I'm not racing,

working, fishing, and I ride my bike.

Can you tell me what it feels like when you're racing?

How does it feel to you?

It's scary, but the feeling of wanting to win is stronger.

How did you get into racing?

How did you find out about it?

A childhood friend introduced me.

Are you fast?

You drive fast?

So-so.

By so-so, she means yes, very fast.

Across is generally seen as a kanjo crew.

These are not exactly drift cars.

They go very fast down the Hanshin Expressway.

So I wonder why we're here ready to go up a mountain far away from Osaka.

Turns out the team are currently not racing the Kanjo right now.

Their boss, the older guy who runs the garage, has decided it's a bit too hot with the law enforcement and surveillance checks.

I'm guessing this has something to do with the smashed up Civic we saw on the way in.

A young lad in a white balaclava who uses the name Hero explains to me that that is his car.

He's just 18 and he was in a police chase recently.

Now in Japan a police chase isn't quite what you might think.

In Japan active pursuit is far more restricted than in most Western countries.

There's a much bigger emphasis on public safety over immediate apprehension.

The National Police Agency guidelines state that officers must prioritise avoiding accidents especially in densely populated areas.

Perfect if you're a kanjo fugitive in hot pursuit.

The getaway is strongly in your favour.

Japanese police are trained to weigh the risk of a chase against the seriousness of the perceived offence.

Pursuits are generally only allowed when the suspect is believed to have committed a serious crime which dangerous driving comes under in Japan.

Street racers are on their radar.

The police are instructed to consider factors like traffic density, weather, road conditions and pedestrian presence before engaging in the chase.

If the pursuit is likely to endanger the public, officers are required to back down by law.

Speed limits still technically apply to police vehicles, but they can be exceeded if lights and sirens are used and the pursuit is officially justified, just like any other country.

That said, official justification is narrowly defined and supervisors on the radio are often involved in the decision to continue or call off a chase.

Legally, if a chase results in injury or death to a third party and the pursuit is deemed unnecessary or reckless, the officers and the department can face civil liability and in some cases even criminal charges.

The cautious approach stems from Japan's broader policing philosophy.

crime prevention and measured response over high-risk enforcement.

As a result, genuine Hollywood style high-speed pursuits are very rare in Japan and when they do happen they are usually in rural areas with lighter traffic and clearer visibility.

To avoid dangerous high-speed chases Japan relies heavily on alternative methods.

These include setting up roadblocks, using spike strips or deploying unmarked ghost cars to shadow suspects until a safer arrest is possible.

In urban areas surveillance cameras and license plate recognition systems often allow police to track a suspect later without immediate confrontation.

This is what happened to Hero.

He was racing around the loop when police pulled in behind him.

He took off, they put the foot on the gas but ultimately Hero's driving skills and the public traffic helped him get away.

Not before the cops caught his license plate though.

For whatever reason, he didn't have the plate flipped up on its hinges and the police found out his address through registration.

A few weeks later, a morning raid on Hero's house found him arrested, charged, and released on bail.

He laughs about it now and explains how he went back out racing anyway and totaled his car, crashing into a barrier on a stiff turn.

No wonder their captain doesn't want a cross on the Kanjo right now.

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Kanjo racers in Osaka are of course notorious for their defiance of the law.

One of their most brazen tactics is called boxing in.

When, you guessed it, they box in police cars during late night runs

when police attempt to intervene in a multi-car race the drivers sometimes coordinate to trap the patrol car between the multiple vehicles two or more cars will position themselves in front beside and behind police slowing or blocking its movement while the rest of the crew scatters This isn't just a getaway method, it's also a deliberate act of mockery.

There are several videos out there showing this tactic on the Hanchin Expressway with goofy music and mocking captions.

It's pretty funny honestly.

Drivers will also sometimes weave aggressively in front of the patrol car, brake check it or rev loudly, forcing the officers into a frustrating standoff.

Police are constrained by the aforementioned strict pursuit rules.

They're hamstrung.

They can't really respond with the same aggression without risking disciplinary action.

Too bad.

The Kanjo crews exploit these limits, knowing that officers are unlikely to engage in risky maneuvers in heavy traffic or at extreme speeds.

Beyond the immediate tactic, this behaviour feeds into the Kanjo subculture's anti-authority image.

It reinforces their reputation for outsmarting and goading the police on their own turf.

In a society as strict and rule-following as Japan, this really defines them as serious outlaws.

The crew explained to us that they're going to take us for a different kind of race.

One lad is very excited about this.

He pops the bonnet of his car which is painted purple and white in the Marlborough design and points laughing at the paint on the inside.

It's Japan's Imperial flag.

Oh I say

Commonly known as the Rising Sun flag, it features a red sun with 16 rays extending outwards.

It's obviously different from the national flag, which is the simple red circle on a white field.

Rising sun design has ancient roots in Japanese mythology and Shinto beliefs, where the sun goddess Amit Arasu is central.

The flag was officially adopted as the war flag of the Imperial Japanese Army in 1870 and later used by the Imperial Navy as well.

Across East and Southeast Asia, especially in Korea and China, it's viewed as a symbol of Japanese militarism and imperial aggression during World War II.

Its resemblance to a military insignia tied to occupation, war crimes and colonialism makes it deeply controversial in those regions.

To many Japanese people though, the flag is just a traditional symbol of good fortune, power and national pride.

It's still used today by the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force even.

It continues to appear at sporting events, festivals and by nationalist groups.

The flag's meaning is heavily context dependent, seen by some as cultural heritage and by others as a painful reminder of wartime atrocities.

For these lot racing, one of them explains to me that it's just seen as a good luck charm of sorts.

Nothing politically loaded about it.

So with the kanjo loop off the curds, the crew tells us that we're taking the civics up to a mountain road to grip round corners at extreme high speed.

I agree to go with them, somewhat reluctantly, but at the same time excited to see what they do.

The cars line up in a convoy at the front of the garage.

A row of souped up multicoloured civics, all with custom designs, lowered frames and sparkly across iconography pasted across the windows.

The drivers get into their cars and they all rev in unison.

I can feel the vibration of the engines roar in my chest.

I hop into one of the cars.

Inside every side panel has been ripped off so you can see the full inner workings of the car.

They do this for weight.

The interior car handle is literally just a metal wire.

The two back seats are ripped out.

All that's back there is metal pipes, molded tire trim and a DIY roll cage bolted into the exposed chassis.

It's like a cockpit built by H.R.

Geiger.

Even the interior roof panel is removed.

We're about to zoom down the road in a metal can with precision brake power and a custom paint job.

Not a single piece of this Civic has been left as is.

I love it.

Once everyone is in position, the order in which across the sides is the hierarchy today,

we all pull off.

There's no casual drive to the mountain, these lot are racing the whole way there.

It's midnight now, we fly through the streets and each civic lights up the road as the cars weave in and out of each other.

At one point we pass a police car going the other way on the side of the road.

We're traveling at least 40 miles per hour above speed limit, all in a convoy of half a dozen very distinctive cars.

There is no denying that these are for street racing.

My driver is wearing a ski mask and half of his window is obscured with netting.

Look, he laughs in English.

Japanese police.

He puts his foot on the pedal, and we peel off so fast, I don't even know if the cops switched on the lights and sirens.

They're fast gone in the mirror.

I'd be lying if I said I don't feel the same adrenaline rush as the street racers right now.

It's dangerous, unfair, and antisocial, but it is still true that it's exhilarating.

After around an hour on the road we end up at the bottom of a valley.

It's pitch black and only random highway lights and the civics expose the scene in front of us.

I see rock faces and lush trees here and there leading up the mountain.

Or at least I think it's a mountain.

It looks a bit like one to me and that's what everyone's calling it for shorthand.

So we'll go with the mountain.

We're all parked at a yellow gate with the engines ticking over.

Right now this mountain road is closed for the night.

No one can drive through.

It's restricted.

Somehow though one of the Across members manages to get the gate open.

It swings out the way and we all roar up the mountain.

The roads I notice are perfect.

It strikes me that to try this back home in England would be even more deadly seen as our roads look like they've been hit with several meteor showers.

Now allow me to tell you about British roads.

British roads especially in recent years, are a fucking disaster.

Mostly to blame is of course the government, especially local governments who spend their budgets on just about anything else but the turmac.

Potholes are absolutely everywhere.

They're so common they've basically become a running joke.

Repair work is slow, patchy and often poorly executed.

Councils claim they lack funding, but central government investment in road maintenance has consistently lagged behind what's needed.

Instead of tackling long-term resurfacing authorities often opt for cheap temporary fixes that crumble after a few months leading to the same stretch being repaired over and over again.

I've genuinely seen similarly damaged roads in the Donbass in East Ukraine and they're at war.

Britain is not.

Our road network is crumbling under the strain of heavy use, bad weather and minimal upkeep.

Without serious well-funded intervention, it is only going to get much worse.

Japan, however, is of course the total opposite.

They are exceptionally good at building roads, especially through mountainous terrain like where we're at right now.

This skill has been built out of necessity, as around 70% of the country is mountainous.

Engineers have had to master creating safe, durable routes in places where where the landscape is anything but forgiving.

Japanese mountain pass roads like these are often feats of precision, blending advanced civil engineering with a careful sense of safety and efficiency.

You'll find winding toge routes with perfect cambers for corners, cautiously designed drainage systems to handle heavy rain, and retaining walls built to withstand both landslides and earthquakes.

Many roads use tunnels and elevated sections to reduce sharp gradients, making them easier to drive and less prone to weather closures.

In winter heavy regions road heating systems and snow shelters keep mountain passes open when they'd be impassable elsewhere.

It's incredible.

The asphalt quality is also usually top-notch with smooth surfaces and clearly marked lanes even in remote areas.

Barriers and signs are well maintained and reflective paint is common for night driving.

While other countries might treat mountain roads as secondary, Japan treats them as lifelines, essential for connecting rural communities.

We could do with some of that in England.

The result here is some of the most reliable and well-crafted mountain pass roads in the world, balancing utility with a scenic driving pleasure.

As you can imagine, this also makes them absolutely perfect for illegal nighttime poge racing.

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After about five minutes driving up the mountain, we pull up to a scene of bright headlights, full dark tints and incredible livery on each and every car.

There's about a dozen here right now.

It's a well-known road for the underground racing and tonight we've got Lucky.

Racers from all different generations have come to put the tire to the tarmac.

We get out the cars and the Across team explains to the other racers what we're here for.

They laugh and ask if we really plan to go down the road with them as the passenger.

I nod, feeling like I don't quite know what I'm in for.

Whilst my work is quite hectic and often dangerous, I am most definitely not an adrenaline junkie.

I think my favorite hobby outside of the boxing gym is chilling out and doing fuck all.

It is not a life goal of mine to risk death going god knows how fast down a mountain pass in a Honda Civic,

but here we are.

One of the Across guys points out one of the older heads.

He's a tall fella dressed in all black designer clothes with his hair dyed dark blonde.

His car is deep navy all over with a red trim.

On his back window he has the sticker of Temple Racing.

He is a true OG of the underground scene here in Japan.

Now Temple Racing is one of the most legendary crews in Osaka and beyond.

Their roots go back to 1978 in Higashi Sumiyoshi, Osaka.

Their team name came from Simon Temple, a character in the British TV series The Saint, chosen by the team's early leader.

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Like all Kanjo crews, Temple Racing operated within a system of unwritten rules.

Every team had its own turf on the Kanjo loop and stepping onto another crew's territory without respect could cause conflict.

Temple Racing was one of those crews you did not want to mess around with.

Their cars were synonymous with the stripped out Honda Civic hatchbacks, the EF9s, the EG6s and the EK4s.

Temple decorated their cars with racing inspired liveries modelled after Group A touring cars.

Temple's cars were built for performance and anonymity, gutted interiors, functional aero, mismatched wheels, rough paint jobs and distinctive camouflage patterns to make them harder to identify at speed.

Drivers often wore masks or covered their faces to protect their identities and cars would sometimes carry false number plates.

Despite the police crackdown and the withering of the Kanjo scene, clearly temple racing is still around to some degree.

Temple racing is more than just a name.

The guys tell me that this fella here is the best downhill grip racer around.

Temple embodies the scene's loyalty to one's crew, respect for the roads and a refusal to let the culture fade into history.

If Kanjo Zoku is a living history of Japan's outlaw street racers, Temple racing is one of its most important chapters.

They lived through the golden era and are still racing around.

These guys believe still that the roads belong to the brave and it turns out this guy will be racing alongside us.

After about 30 minutes of discussion sending off younger lookouts to check the roads and examining each other's cars it's decided that the race is on.

Eight cars all line up in order.

The roads are far too narrow to overtake at high speed, so I'm not too sure how one wins the race.

Each person I ask has a different explanation, but I think it works like this.

The cars zoom down the steep mountain road in single file, high speed, controlled turning.

Then when they get to the bottom where there's a wider area to maneuver, they all quickly swerve back around trying to get their car up the hill in a better position than when they came down it.

I think that's how it works anyway.

Honestly the thrill of the chase is more what they're after right now rather than a coherent race system.

With street racing clamped down on so hard by the cops, they all have to just take what they can.

I'm feeling nervous.

If one of these drivers makes a mistake, we're looking at certain death if the car mounts the small fence at the side of the road.

It's not great.

Either way, I hop into one of the cars of the Acrosslads and I wait patiently as the engines rev in anticipation for the go signal.

I strap myself in with the X shaped four-point seat belt.

I say a small prayer.

A few minutes pass.

The spotter at the front of the queue puts his hand up.

It's time to go.

The cars in front pull off at warp speed.

My driver slams the gear stick and stamps the pedals.

The Civic bursts forward and before I can even catch my breath, we're taking the first corner.

The brakes are pumped, the wheels stick and we grip around the bend with total precision.

To my left is a blurred, jagged rock face.

To the right a darkness below over the fence line.

At the speed we're going, we tear right through it.

In front and behind us, the headlights of the other cars shake and slide as we speed down the course.

Driver manhandles the steering wheel as if he's fighting for his life.

The car jolts from side to side as we pick up speed, tear through sharp corners like nothing.

My hands are so tightly gripped around my seatbelt that they hurt.

The driver looks at me quick and bursts out laughing.

I laugh too.

This is crazy.

The car is a roller coaster with tinted windows and scorched tires.

The engine screams at a steady pitch.

Pistons work in overtime as the crankshaft spins fast enough to shake the strip chassis.

Heat builds up under the bonnet, cooling fans whirr.

Keeping it in check, each gear change jolts through the transmission, sharp and carrying weight at high speed.

We finish the chosen course, then spin around and fly straight back up it.

I can't even tell if we're in a better position than before, but I can see the Temple racing car spin off even faster than we are.

My driver eases off the throttle for a a heartbeat as we take another corner.

The car slides, he stamps back on it, the rear tyres lose grip for a moment sliding across the tarmac in a controlled sweep.

The limited slip differential keeps both wheels spinning together, feeding torque evenly as the car takes the strain.

The suspension dips under the sudden weight shift, then rises as the car settles into the grip.

Tyres hiss and squeal, faint smoke trailing out the exhaust in front.

The steering wheel moves violently in the driver's hands.

The steering wheel moves violently in the driver's hands with heavy but precise adjustments that keep the nose aimed just ahead of the slide.

Every system is working near its limit.

Engine, gearbox, suspension, tires, in the midst of the high-speed chaos the civic moves in a careful balance.

There's a constant connection between driver and machine.

The corner unwinds, grip returns and the car straightens.

The engine still holding its own.

As we pull up to the top of the hill, I tell the driver I'm getting the fuck out.

I survived the run.

He can do the rest on his own.

He laughs, pats my back and then stops so I can get out.

Him and the rest of the cars quickly screech off back down the track.

They'll run this road a dozen times before before the end of the night.

Their run back was enough for me.

My heart's racing, ears ringing, palms sweaty.

The racing lak is not for me, but I can now completely feel the appeal of it.

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