• Nov 8 IFOCE Fort Pierce, FL pizza contest officially announced and registration is now open (from Crawfish comment)
• Beer drinking contest between Joey Chestnut and Pat Bertoletti
• KDKA wants pictures of eating contest trophies. They also have a slideshow of competitive eaters.
• Central Michigan University hot dog eating contest
• Philly.com blog entry about Steakbellie’s and Wing Kong’s records
• Gallery of the Ohio State “Chicks Eat Chicks” women’s wing eating contest
• Kana Kanisawa does an event to promote her second gravure DVD

Even though Gyaruru is on hiatus, a Japanese female competitive eater will release a CD this summer. Kana Kanisawa has put out a CD on the South to North label titled (according to Google translation) “Food Without grumbling to eat!”

Kana’s singing can be heard on a youtube karaoke video. She strips down to a bikini while performing.

Tim Brown answers 10 questions on IFOCE com
Indian traveler will spend a week in Chennai to see if Dale Boone can help him get started in “Kollywood” film industry, Dale Boone advises him to watch out for poisonous frogs
Don Lerman hires 25 people to handle his fan mail
Article about March 7 Lake Tahoe sushi / extreme food contest
Video footage from 2006 NYC grilled cheese eating contest
More on Canada’s tallest man 18 pound burger attempt
Request for videos of diners eating 4 HDB in less than 2 minutes
Kana Kanisawa & friend purchase a lot of food from Seibu Department store then eat it (Part 1, Part 2)
Pictures of Tomoko Miyake’s convenience store meals from yama3 (See above)
Japanese pancake eating contest for women only - first prize is a million yen and a trip to Hawaii

Juris “Dr. Big Time” Shibayama has started a personal website at http://doctorbigtime.com with a page devoted to competitive eating.

There have been a lot of recent changes for Japanese websites. Sakura Takahashi has moved to miotakahashi.net Tomoko Miyake, Saori Nakayama and Kana Kanisawa have all moved their blogs to new URLS (See sidebar for links)

Kana Kanisawa, a member of the three person team competing against three Americans has released a DVD apparently consisting of her posing in bathing suits. She did an interview about the DVD and there is also some pictures from the press conference announcing the release.

There is no nudity in the links above, but they may not be safe for all workplaces.

In other news from the 3 person team contest, Jill Stoler says she is back from Japan in her myspace page.

The Washington Post has an interesting article on the rise of Japanese blogging. The article reports that more blog entries are written in Japanese than in English, even though there are about 8 times more Anglophones than Japanese speakers. Japanese blog entries are more likely to be based on everyday life than on the opinions or expertise of the writer.

Kana Kanisawa’s blog, which consists of over 8600 entries which are phonecam pictures with brief captions, exemplifies this characteristic.

In this week’s Wednesday morning contest, Natsuko “Gal” Sone defeated Kana Kanisawa in a 3kg (6.6 lb) burger eating contest. The only result provided is that Sone won, it is not listed if either burger was finished in the 30 minute time limit.

(From R Suzuki) If you cannot find enough competitive eating material on the internet, you might want to check out Kana Kanisawa’s blog at http://ameblo.jp/kana-de/ She might have more entries than all other competitive eating blogs combined. She made 615 posts in March (there were 145 entries last month on this website)