The most skips over a single rope in 3 minutes by a team was 461 and was achieved by 12 pupils from Momoyama Elementary School (Japan) on the set of ‘100 Beautiful Women Who Have Guinness World Records’, at the Shiodome Nihon TV Studios in Tokyo, Japan, on 5 May 2011. The rope was swung continuously by the pupils’ skipping coaches. The pupils lined up one behind another and on the starting signal each pupil skipped over the rope individually, one after the other. They
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The most consecutive spits and catches of three table tennis balls is 76 and was achieved by Francisco Tebar Honrubia (Spain), aka Picaso Jr., on the set of TV Asahi Tokyo, in Tokyo, Japan, on 2 March 2011. At the same performance session, Picaso Jr. also set a record by flashing four ping-pong balls with his mouth 33 times.
The most spins on a unicycle in one minute is 131 and was achieved by Satomi Sakaino (Japan) on the set of Kinsma, at the TBS Broadcast Center in Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan, on 19 November 2011. Satomi Sakaino is a professional unicycle rider and performs with her sister. She is touring America for 2 years with the Cirque du Soleil to perform their unicycle acts (until the year 2013).
From its launch in 1981 until 1987, a total of 293,822 PAC-MAN arcade machines were built and installed in arcade venues around the world. Designed by Tohru Iwatani (Japan) of Namco, the original game took eight people 15 months to complete. Namco estimate that PAC-MAN has been played more than ten billion times in its 20-year history. GWR Video Gamer’s Edition 2008.
In January 2002, Japanese scientists led by Akira Iritani announced that they had successfully implanted vegetable genetic material into an animal for the first time. The genetically modified pigs contain a spinach gene which reportedly will make the pork meat less fatty and thus more healthy to eat. The pigs were born in mid 1998 and no health problems have been reported in them since then.
The most table tennis counter hits in one minute is 180, and was achieved by Mima Ito and Tacshow Arai (both Japan) on the set of 100 Handsome Men and Beautiful Women, at the Kojimachi NTV studio in Tokyo, Japan, on 13 November 2011.
The most versions of a TV commercial for the same product broadcast within 24 hours – Free-to-air (Terrestrial TV) is 60 and was achieved by KDDI CORPORATION (Japan) on Free-to-air TV networks in Japan, on 27 January 2011.
The most TV talk shows hosted by the same presenter is 8,889 episodes by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (Japan) on her show “Tetsuko no Heya” (Tetsuko’s Room). The talk show has been broadcast daily by TV Asahi (Japan)since 2 February 1976. The programme has been broadcast on workdays with no significant breaks or intervals and is still popular and broadcasting as at 13 January 2011.
The most varieties of sherry commercially available is 227 at The Sherry Club in Tokyo, Japan as of 3 November 2005.
The most unique visitors to a personal blog in 24 hours is 230,755 and was achieved by Yusuke Kamiji’s blog (Japan), on 12 April 2008. Cyber Agent Inc., the operator of the blog media ¡¥Ameba¡¦ measured and collecting the log data. number of comments: 56,018 comments posted to one article (17th April 2008) (the link to the article: http://ameblo.jp/kamijiyusuke/entry-10089041905.html)