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If people anywhere in the world are likely to go overboard when doing things then the Japanese would have to be right there at the top, and deco-tora or deco-trucks are a rockingly great example of this.

Taking the decoration of the vehicles to almost unimaginable heights, the owners of these trucks add all sorts of magical lighting, paneling and decoration to make their trucks works of art. The photo above is from pingmag, who have an interesting article about an exhibition of photographs of these pop culture icons by Japanese photographer Masaru Tatsuki. From their post:

This pretty colourful aspect of Japanese pop culture has been extensively explored by photographer Masaru Tatsuki who spent ten years with the truckers of Japan’s highways. Today PingMag walks over to Masaru’s current exhibition at Harajuku‘s Little More Chika gallery to catch up with him about his new photo book.

You can read the full interview here in English: Masaru Tatsuki’s Decotora Photo Op

And it isn’t just cars and trucks that get decorated – I once saw a deco-chari, a decorated bicycle, done up to look like the rider was in the cab of a big rig! Now that was something special!