{"id":1875,"date":"2021-03-30T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2021-03-29T11:27:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T16:27:36","slug":"iron-chef-x-todays-menu-nhk-april-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ironcheffans.com\/?p=1875","title":{"rendered":"Iron Chef x Today&#8217;s Menu (NHK, April 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In late April 2019, there was an <em>Iron Chef<\/em> collaboration with the long-running NHK show <em>Today&#8217;s Menu<\/em> (\u304d\u3087\u3046\u306e\u6599\u7406) to celebrate the end of the Heisei Era when Emperor Akihito (son of Hirohito) abdicated the Chrysanthemum Throne and was succeeded by Crown Prince Naruhito.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It featured Sakai, Michiba, Chen and even Kenji Fukui in a collaboration that would normally be unthinkable since Fuji TV and NHK are competitors, which goes to show how big an occasion the end of a emperor&#8217;s era is in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u304d\u3087\u3046\u306e\u6599\u7406\u306b\u6599\u7406\u306e\u9244\u4eba\u306e3\u540d\u306b\u52a0\u3048\u3066\u3001\u6599\u7406\u306e\u9244\u4eba\u306e\u5b9f\u6cc1\u62c5\u5f53\u3060\u3063\u305f\u798f\u4e95\u30a2\u30ca\u304c\u30d5\u30b8\u30c6\u30ec\u30d3\u3067\u306f\u306a\u304fNHK\u306b\u767b\u5834<br>\u30b3\u30e9\u30dc\u306e\u8a3c\u3068\u3057\u3066\u3001\u6599\u7406\u306e\u9244\u4eba\u305f\u3061\u304c\u304d\u3087\u3046\u306e\u6599\u7406\u306e\u30a8\u30d7\u30ed\u30f3\u3092\u3064\u3051\u308b\u3001\u3060\u3063\u305f\u3051\u3069\u9244\u4eba\u305f\u3061\u304c\u81ea\u5206\u3067\u30a8\u30d7\u30ed\u30f3\u3064\u3051\u3089\u308c\u306a\u304f\u3066\u3001\u9053\u5834\u516d\u4e09\u90ce\u306f\u9ad8\u6a4b\u79c0\u6a39\u306b\u3064\u3051\u3066\u3082\u3089\u3046<br><br>\u3068\u3044\u3046\u5e73\u6210\u6700\u5f8c\u306e\u30ab\u30aa\u30b9 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HztSmCcn4e\">pic.twitter.com\/HztSmCcn4e<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u3061\u3088 (@Chiyochiyoyo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chiyochiyoyo\/status\/1123108116512460800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All three Iron Chefs participated in one of the show&#8217;s long-running segments, &#8220;Dinner in 20 Minutes&#8221;, which was actually conceived by Katsuyo Kobayashi, the chef who bested Chen in Battle Potato I (232).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Today&#8217;s Menu<\/em> has been airing since November 4th, 1957 and its list of guests includes Chen Kenmin and a younger Michiba, as NHK Archives on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NHKarchives\/posts\/1123549177712885\/\">posted<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/2aZxJpe.png\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Some <em>Iron Chef<\/em> names as they appeared on <em>Today&#8217;s Menu<\/em> including Chen Kenmin, Kenichi&#8217;s father (Upper left and lower left), a younger Michiba (Upper right \u2013 51 years old to be exact) and challenger Zhou Tomitoku (Lower right, from Battle Pork I against Michiba).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late April 2019, there was an Iron Chef collaboration with the long-running NHK show Today&#8217;s Menu (\u304d\u3087\u3046\u306e\u6599\u7406) to celebrate the end of the Heisei Era when Emperor Akihito (son of Hirohito) abdicated the Chrysanthemum Throne and was succeeded by Crown Prince Naruhito. 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