#Harrison15 :The over-use of the Shoshinsha mark strikes me as odd, too, but that's a matter of opinion.
The Shoshinsha mark has had it's meaning completely twisted and I don't really agree with it's use as an icon for the JDM car community.
In Britain we do not put P plates on an Austin-Healey Sprite (as a rather unusual example) so why put the Jap equivalent on a 350Z for example? No offense to the guys that do that but it just doesn't make sense in my eyes.