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<li>Ed Krachie</li> <li>]</li>
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<li>Hirofumi Nakajima (24 1/2 hot dogs)</li> <li>Hirofumi Nakajima (24 1/2 hot dogs) (World Record)</li>
<li>Hirofumi Nakajima (19 hot dogs)</li> <li>Hirofumi Nakajima (19 hot dogs)</li>
<li>Steve Keiner (20 1/4 hot dogs)</li> <li>] (20 1/4 hot dogs)</li>
<li>Kazutoyo "Rabbit" Arai (&#26032;&#20117;&#21644;&#38911;) (25 1/8 hot dogs)</li> <li>] (&#26032;&#20117;&#21644;&#38911;) (25 1/8 hot dogs) (World Record)</li>
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<li>Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi (50 1/2 hot dogs)</li> <li>Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi (50 1/2 hot dogs) (World Record)</li>
<li>Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi (44 1/2 hot dogs)</li> <li>Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi (44 1/2 hot dogs)</li>
<li>Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi (53 1/2 hot dogs)</li> <li>Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi (53 1/2 hot dogs) (New World Record)</li>
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Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs hosts an annual hot dog eating contest at the site of their first retaurant in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York since 1916 except for 1941 (as a protest to the war) and 1971 (as a protest to civil unrest). The contest is held at noon on July 4th and lasts 12 minutes. The competition draws many spectators and worldwide press coverage.

The rules

There are 20 contestants standing behind a 30-ft-long table with hotdogs and drinks. Whoever eats (and keeps down) the most hot dogs (and buns) is the winner. Partially eaten hot dogs count and the granularity of measurement is eighths of a hot dog.

The Japanese domination

This eating contest had been a national favorite since its beginning. However, started from 1996, Japanese eaters are taking away the price every year except for 1999. In comparison with most contestants of the U.S. who are tall and fat, Japanese contestants are usually very thin and not that tall. But they are breaking the records almost on a yearly basis. Despite of their collective will to take back the prize, most U.S. contestants could not even come close to Japanese records.

These Japanese contestants are sponsored by TV Tokyo's (テレビ東京) TV Champion (TVチャンピオン), a competition show started from 1992. TV Champion is a weekly TV program whose subjects has been mostly food-related (sushi championship, fast-eating championship, kids' cooking championship ...).

The Japanese dominance was sometimes overwhelming, for example, in 2000, the first, second and third places were all taken by Japanese contestants (Kazutoyo Arai, 25; Misao Fujita, 24; Takako Akasaka (female), 22).

A partial list of winners

  1. Mike Devito
  2. -
  3. Ed Krachie
  4. Hirofumi Nakajima (中嶋広文) (23 1/4 hot dogs) (World Record)
  5. Hirofumi Nakajima (24 1/2 hot dogs) (World Record)
  6. Hirofumi Nakajima (19 hot dogs)
  7. Steve Keiner (20 1/4 hot dogs)
  8. Kazutoyo "Rabbit" Arai (新井和響) (25 1/8 hot dogs) (World Record)
  9. Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi (小林尊) (50 hot dogs) (World Record)
  10. Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi (50 1/2 hot dogs) (World Record)
  11. Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi (44 1/2 hot dogs)
  12. Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi (53 1/2 hot dogs) (New World Record)

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