The best part of all this is, none of this crap really happened to any great extent in Japan that I ever saw....aside from the bodykits and graphics. These are the USDM style JDM fads.
Every time I ever went to Japan the main things I noticed, that really stood out to me, was the weird box cars and their fascination with American sports cars. Everyone here was trying to emulate them, meanwhile they gawk over Corvettes and Camaros, go figure!
Altezza's, OMG. I didn't do that, but I did almost put colored Acura badges on my Teg, some blue ones. I even bought them, but never got around to putting them on, thank god.