Pennlive.com has a blog entry with a picture of the 286 pound burger produced by the Clinton Station Diner that was consumed at the World’s Largest Menu Burger Eating Championship today. Contest results are not provided; they will be listed in an article on Sunday.

update nj.com has an article with results:

1) Tomoko Miyake, Takuya Yamamoto, Taku Izumi – 26.4 lb in 45 minutes
2) Ian Hickman, Elizabeth Canady, Pete Maurizio – 18.1 lb in 45 minutes
? McGowan brothers 6 lb

updated AICE news has full results and a galleries of the burger’s creation and the contest

update #2 Jill Stoler has pictures in her myspace page and a blog entry about the contest

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Tomoko Miyake reports that she has made her debut as a “gravure” model Gravure models wear clothes like bathing suits and leotards. In the article about her debut, Tomoko poses next to a lot of food from Wendy’s

On Friday, Tomoko and her teammates were filmed eating hot dogs at Wind Mill hot dogs.

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Tomoko Miyake reports that she, Takuya Yamamoto and Taku Izumi arrived in New York City and went to a Japanese buffet. Tomoko appreciated the lack of a time limit as Japanese buffets usually have. She will be doing a film session on Friday.

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A video of the curry eating contest between Tomoko Miyake and Ian “the Invader” Hickman in higher definition than youtube videos is available. Some screen captures from the video are linked to the thumbnails above. The high definition enables viewers to determine than Ian is wearing a United Eaters of Pennsylvania hat.

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Tomoko Miyake did an interview for J-Cast. She says she might follow Gal Sone in crossing over into a music career and Kana Kanisawa in releasing a DVD.

January 1908 as a gravure idol debut in the spring, the photo book and DVD are set up. Rumors debut as a singer, but now I want to work any talent?

Miyake idol at the age of 24 is called what I think (laughter). I want Food program. Spa or go to the Chick brusque things out, eat delicious. Reporter ordinary people, a lot of food has been eaten not only not even a little bit? If I go to each location that can be eaten whole. Eat all the deeper I think you can report the shops and I think people are happy. I want to do that. Full.

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AICE news reports that a team consisting of Takuya Yamamoto, Tomoko Miyake and Saori Nakayama will compete against an American team at the World’s Biggest Burger Team Eating Championship. Tomoko Miyake’s blog reports that she apparently began practicing for that contest by attempting the “Dream Burger” challenge of eating a 4kg hamburger in less than 40 minutes. A video of Ms. Miyake’s attempt can be seen on stage6.com. She managed to finish about two thirds of the burger before time elapsed.

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The online video site stage6.com has clips from several Japanese competitive eating programs I have not seen before. In one program, Tomoko Miyake’s buffet club goes to a restaurant and is weighed on a large group scale before they start eating. The inital weight of the five diners is 226.8 kg (499 lb). After they complete their meal, the new combined weight is 249.6 kg (549 lb), a weight gain of about 50 pounds, or 10 pounds per person.

Other videos include:

Sakura Takahashi eating more than 15 pounds of noodles

Kana Kanisawa completing several eating challenges

Tomoko Miyake defeating a pajama clad oppenent in a karaoke duel

Takuya Yamamoto finishing a large bowl of noodles.

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AICE News reports that Tomoko Miyake defeated Ian Hickman by being the first to finish over 9 pounds of curry.

The blogs of Tomoko Miyake, Takuya Yamamoto and Saori Nakayama report that they recorded a television appearance today, but have no results or pictures of Americans.

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Tomoko Miyake derives her nickname, “esute”, from her day job as an aesthetician (cosmetologist). She offers some beauty tips on Yahoo of Japan by going through the contents of her makeup kit.

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Tomoko Miyake experienced “the munchies” at a “pot party” and wrote a blog entry about it.

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An English transcript of Tomoko Miyake’s dumpling eating contest against the Korean boy band Super Junior has been entered in the comments of that video by intplife.

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FritoLay.co.jp reports that snack foods endorsed by Nobuyuki Shirota and Tomoko Miyake were released today. Shirota and Miyake also designed and endorsed snacks for Frito Lay last year.

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Today is Joey Chestnut’s 24th birthday. November 1983 has to be considered the strongest month for competitive eaters when you consider that Takuya Yamamoto (November 5) and Tomoko Miyake (November 21) have already turned 24 this month.

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Tomoko Miyake has revamped her website and changed its URL from miyaketomoko.com to tomokomiyake.net The website has a flash introduction, but still can be accessed via HTML links, enabling translation with the Google translator. A cartoon Tomoko wearing various national costumes appears on the new site’s pages, which is appropriate for a website making its debut near Halloween.

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Deresque has a blog entry with a lot of pictures from a lunch last month he had with 13 other competitive eating friends at the Grand Buffet Hawaiian Island in Tokyo. The fourteen eaters were grouped into 7 two person teams and each member was weighed before and after eating lunch at the buffet. The team with the highest combined weight gain was proclaimed the winner.

The top 5 single person weight gains were:
1. Takuya Yamamoto, 23.76 lb. / 10.8 kg (54.3 kg -> 65.1 kg), on #1 team
2. Mio “Sakura” Takahashi 15.2 lb. / 6.9 kg (31.3. kg -> 38.2 kg), on #2 team
3. Tomoko Miyake, 14.3 lb. / 6.5 kg (38.2 kg -> 44.7 kg) on #2 team
4. Asami “Essen” Miyanishi, 13.4 lb. / 6.1 kg (unlisted start & finish) on #3 team
5. Yamaguchi 12.32 lb. / 5.6 kg (60.6 kg -> 66.2 kg), on #1 team

Sakura Takahashi had the highest percentage weight gain, 38.2 / 31.3 = 22%, edging out Takuya Yamamoto, 65.1 / 54.3 = 20%

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A video of the pumpkin eating contest between teams consisting of Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota & Tomoko Miyake and “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti & Elizabeth “Rubber Gut” Canady can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-34LXhHeKs
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The pumpkin contest between teams from the United States and Japan was broadcast today and R Suzuki has a blog entry about the program

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The Kent County Times has an article about the pumpkin contest in Rhode Island between mixed gender pairs from the United States and Japan which describes the origin of the event:

Emi Umeda, who works with the production crew, said the name of the show translates to “Anything is possible,” and she said the point of the show is to take a topic, find who’s best in the world at it and challenge them to a contest against Japan.

One of the topics is a pumpkin-eating contest, she said, which will pit two professional American eaters against two professional Japanese eaters, making their way through five different pumpkin dishes.

In order to get started, the show wanted to find who held the record for growing the largest pumpkin in the world, which happened to be Coventry resident Ron Wallace, who owns a farm at 860 Plainfield Pike.

The American female made her competitive debut according to the article:

The Japanese contestants are Tomoko Miyake and Nobuyuki Shirota and the American contestants are “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti of Wallingford, Conn., and Elizabeth “Rubber Gut” Kennedy from Florida.

“This is my first time doing this,” Kennedy said. “I made some inquiries on the Internet just out of curiosity and interest and they gave me a call.”

The article verifies reports of a US victory:

Since it may be difficult for American viewers to tune into the show to see the results, St. Jean said the American team ended up easily outpacing the team from Japan.

update BigPumpkins.com has some pictures of the contest (bottom of page) One of the pictures is captioned:

At the Wallaces on August 21, 2007, Gentleman Joe, urges his teamate to down more Pumpkin Lobster and Pumpkin pizza. She ate an entire Large Pumpkin Pizza and 2 lb Pumpkin Lobster in 3 minutes. But that was just the appetizer.

update #2 The BigPumpkins.com message board has some threads about the contest: Thread 1, Thread 2, Thread 3

update #3 Dec 26, 2007 The quoted article spelled Elizabeth’s last name incorrectly. The correct spelling is Canady.

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From AICE news:

As predicted by Chairman Chowhound Chapman, Gentleman Joe Menchetti and Elizabeth “Rubber-Gut” Cassidy defeated the great Shirota and Miyake in decisive fashion at the Wallace Pumpkin Farm in Rhode Island. It seems that Gentleman Joe Menchetti who cannot be beaten by man or beast in the pumpkin disciplines and the unknown “Queen Guttress” (stay tuned America, you will be finding out more about this amazing female Eater in the near future) put down the proverbial hammer as they won four of the five contests.

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Tomoko Miyake has blog entries about the departure and arrival of her flight to JFK to compete in a pumpkin eating contest in Rhode Island. After arriving, Tomoko and her teammate Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota ate at the American Steakhouse restaurant in Connecticut.

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AICE news reports that a multiple round, tag team eating contest between two person mixed gender teams from the United States and Japan will take place at Ron Wallace’s pumpkin farm in Greene, Rhode Island on August 21. The food will be a variety of pumpkin based dishes. Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota and Tomoko “Esute” Miyake will represent the Japanese, while the home team will consist of “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti and Elizabeth “Rubber Gut” Cassidy. Ms. Cassidy was predicted to come in fourth at May’s AICE rib contest in Kansas City, but no results for her from that event were listed and I have not been able to find any other competitive eating information about her on the internet.

In his blog, Shirota reports that he will be going abroad next week, but does not provide further details (automatically translated):

By the way next week, almost it is the foreign country.

There is no sight-seeing, is.

Today, because carrying which can be used even in the foreign country was rented, when perhaps it does

Perhaps, it renews [burogu] from the foreign country, perhaps, but it does not do.

AICE news also reports that Joel “the Cannon” Podelsky won the knish eating contest held on the Coney Island Cyclones Jewish Heritage Night.

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A 24 hour eating contest between teams of different sizes was recently held on a Japanese television program called “Food Camp”. The teams consisted of Nobuyuki “The Giant” Shirota as a single-person team, a two-woman team of Tomoko Miyake and her friend Kana, three wrestlers and six comedians. The comedians won by eating, 22.21 kg in total, but that was only .3 kg more than Shirota ate. Tomoko Miyake’s team was hurt by the medical disqualification of Kana.

Youtube videos: Part 1 Part 2
R Suzuki blog entry
Official program website

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Kobayashi and Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota recently faced off, but it was in a bowling alley and not an eating contest. Shirota reports that Kobayashi broke 200 in his blog entry about the competition.

In his blog entry, Kobayashi has a cartoon of Shirota and the Food Battle Club stars. Tomoko Miyake has a cartoon of herself suitable for placement on a button in her blog.

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Gal Sone recently moved out of her parent’s house in Kyoto into a studio apartment in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. A program called “Imada Housing Moving” located Gal Sone a new residence and then performed some renovations on it, greatly upgrading the kitchenette and adding a built in aquarium and condiment dispenser. The apartment has 29.6 square meters (330 square feet) and has a monthly rent of 116000 Yen ($957). The apartment is too small for both a bed and sofa, so Gal Sone will sleep on a futon.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

R Suzuki has a summary of the program

Some more programs
Gluttonous Queen rookie qualifier round 1 – Hokkaido (Suguwara wins by eating 58 sausages in 45 minutes)
Tomoko Miyake completes several eating challenges on “Enjoy Garage” Part 1, Part 2
Gyaruru eats sushi, then dance with a man wearing only underwear

Some other videos can be seen at
www.youtube.com/user/iwasakinyama and youtube.com/user/eazy777

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The entire broadcast of last year’s Gluttonous Queen program is available in 10 parts at http://www.youtube.com/user/iwasakinyama

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