Keiichi Tsuchiya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Japanese drifting driver
Date of Birth: 30-Jan-1956
Place of Birth: Tōmi, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Profession: racing automobile driver
Nationality: Japan
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
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About Keiichi Tsuchiya
- Keiichi Tsuchiya (????, Tsuchiya Keiichi, born January 30, 1956) is a professional race car driver.
- He is known as the Drift King (????, Dorikin) for his nontraditional use of drifting in non-drifting racing events and his role in popularizing drifting as a motorsport.
- He is also known for touge (mountain pass) driving. The car he drives, a Toyota AE86 Sprinter Trueno, has become one of the most popular sports cars; the car is also known as "Hachi-Roku" in Japan (hachi-roku meaning "eight six"); his car is also called "The Little Hachi that could." A video known as Pluspy documents Tsuchiya's touge driving with his AE86. He was a consultant for the popular manga and comic book series, Initial D, of which the main character Takumi Fujiwara is a character which describes him.
- He also served as a stunt coordinator and stuntman on The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, where he also made a cameo appearance.
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