{"id":14718,"date":"2010-11-12T22:12:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T02:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=14718"},"modified":"2010-11-14T10:44:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T14:44:02","slug":"kobayashi-headlines-new-yorks-annual-japan-arts-matsuri-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/12\/kobayashi-headlines-new-yorks-annual-japan-arts-matsuri-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobayashi Headlines New York’s Annual Japan Arts Matsuri"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eating champ Takeru Kobayashi competes at JAM 2010 Nov. 13. (Courtesy of Rei Miura\/NPO American Dream Japanese Network)<\/p><\/div>\n

By<\/em> JQ <\/em>magazine<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>Justin Tedaldi<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong>(CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page<\/em> here<\/a><\/strong> to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Ultimate Food Fighter” Takeru Kobayashi<\/a> returns to eat another day to break a new Guinness World Record as the special guest of the 8th Annual Amnet New York<\/a> Japan Arts Matsuri<\/a> this weekend at Java Street Hall in Brooklyn.\u00a0While traditional Japanese matsuri<\/em>, or festivals, occur in the summer, this year\u2019s edition of JAM will sport some of today’s best, most energetic Japanese performing artists working in New York. With the entire event will be aired live worldwide via Ustream<\/a>, JAM will beat the drum for Japan and Japanese culture through art and entertainment. New Yorkers know Kobayashi primarily as the six-time winner of the Nathan\u2019s International July 4 Hot Dog Eating Contest, but on Saturday he will attempt to break the Guinness world record for the quickest time for downing a 12-inch pizza.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sunday, Japanese singer-songwriter Senri Oe will perform piano with his own jazz trio, featuring Semar on bass and Joe Abams on drums. This year, JAM expects to draw a two-day total of over 800 ardent fans of Japanese arts. Over the two days, the popular “Talent Night” will feature nearly two dozen up-and-coming singers, dancers, musicians and other performers who successfully made the cut before JAM\u2019s judges. Brooklyn-based Japanese drum group Taiko Masala<\/a> is one of the performers poised to bring Japan a bit closer to the borough, and an audience participation dance demonstration by Yosakoi Dance Project 10tecomai<\/a> (featuring JETAANY member\/JetWit contributor Kirsten Phillips<\/a>) is guaranteed to raise the roof.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 By JQ magazine\u2019s\u00a0Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page here to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories. “Ultimate Food Fighter” Takeru Kobayashi returns to eat another day to break a new Guinness World Record as the special guest of the 8th Annual Amnet New York Japan Arts Matsuri this weekend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t