Kazuya Ōshima

Honestly, Kazuya Oshima is the real deal: the son of a rally driver, karting from age eight, and one of only three drivers to win Super GT titles in both GT300 and GT500. Paddock people rate his car-setup skills highly, and he has quietly carved out a lane that very few people occupy. That kind of niche-but-serious career path is genuinely cool to me — more interesting than someone chasing fame, honestly.

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Kazuya Ōshima is a Japanese racing driver born on April 30, 1987, in Gunma Prefecture. He is one of only three drivers to have won titles in both classes of Super GT, taking the GT300 championship in 2007 and the GT500 championship in 2019. His official website is kazuya-oshima.com and he maintains an Instagram presence.

Name (English)

Kazuya Ōshima

Name (Japanese)

大嶋和也

Reading

おおしま かずや

Born

April 30, 1987 (age 39)

Origin

Gunma Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Engineer / Racing Driver

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rabbit

• Official sitehttps://www.kazuya-oshima.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kazuya_oshima/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E5%B6%8B%E5%92%8C%E4%B9%9F
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1737588

Tags

• From Gunma Prefecture
• Engineer
• Racing Driver

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.