Atsuro Kawai

Atsuro Kawai (川井 淳郎 Kawai Atsurō, known as Junro Kawai in the Tokyopop version) is the hillclimb racer and the leader of the Tochigi-based Seven Star Leaf.

He seems to be a decent enough driver, again favouring the grip racing techniques, but his mastery of it is incomparable to that of Takeshi Nakazato. His car is powered up to 400 hp.

Atsuro races against Keisuke Takahashi during Project D's first expedition in Tochigi.

Etymology

 * The name Atsuro means "pure" (淳) (atsu) and "son" (郎) (ro).
 * Atsuro's surname Kawai means "river, stream" (川) (kawa) and "well, mine shaft, pit" (井) (i).

Trivia

 * His Tokyopop name is not a nickname, but in fact a mistranslation of his name. 淳郎 is Atsurō in Japanese, but in Chinese it is Chúnláng, which is translated to Junro. It can be assumed that whoever translated the name, somehow did so in the wrong language.
 * Atsuro is playable in Arcade Stage 8 Infinity in the Rival Side mode.