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  2. Street racing - Wikipedia

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    An illegal street race in Bogotá, Colombia. Street racing is a typically unsanctioned and often illegal form of auto racing that occurs on a public road.Racing in the streets is considered an ancient hazard, as horse racing occurred on streets for centuries, and street racing in automobiles is likely as old as the automobile itself.

  3. Ebisu Circuit - Wikipedia

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    Ebisu Circuit was designed and built by the drift driver Nobushige Kumakubo and is one of the premier drifting-based race tracks in the world. [ citation needed ] Nobushige also holds other non-drifting motorsport events at Ebisu including motorcycle races, karting , endurance races , FJ1600 open-wheel car races and, in previous years, events ...

  4. Immigration to Japan - Wikipedia

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    Illegal immigrant numbers had peaked at approximately 300,000 in May 1993, [citation needed] but have been gradually reduced through a combination of stricter enforcement of border controls, workplace monitoring and an expansion of government-run foreign worker programs for those seeking a legal route to short term employment opportunities in ...

  5. Women in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Although Japan remains a socially conservative society, with relatively pronounced gender roles, Japanese women and Japanese society are quite different from the strong stereotypes that exist in foreign media or travel guides, which paint the women in Japan as 'submissive' and devoid of any self-determination. [27]

  6. License to boogie: Japan moves to ease dancing ban - AOL

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    Dancing at public venues is technically illegal in Japan and is only permitted until midnight in clubs with a special license, a vestige of a law on "businesses affecting public morals", which was ...

  7. Human rights in Japan - Wikipedia

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    The Constitution provides for the freedom of movement within the country, foreign travel, immigration, and repatriation, and the Government generally respects them in practice. Citizens have the right to travel freely both within the country and abroad, to change their place of residence, to emigrate, and to repatriate voluntarily.

  8. Drifting (motorsport) - Wikipedia

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    This sense of drift is not to be confused with the four wheel drift, a classic cornering technique established in Grand Prix and sports car racing. [citation needed] As a motoring discipline, drifting competitions were first popularized in Japan in the 1970s and further popularized by the 1995 manga series Initial D. Drifting competitions are ...

  9. Japan’s elderly are lonely and struggling. Some women ... - AOL

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    The women in Tochigi live behind bars and must work in the prison’s factories, but that suits some just fine. ... Across Japan, the number of prisoners aged 65 or older nearly quadrupled from ...