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In Japan SASUKE is shown as a three hour special, not broken up into episodes like on G4. As far as I can tell, none of the past competitions have been either re-aired or released on video or DVD in Japan. People may have tapes/dvds but they'd probably be rare too.

That would be part of とんねるずのみなさんのおかげでした (Tunnels no minasan no okagedeshita) specifically the 食わず嫌い王決定戦 (umm..battle of the food that you dislike).
According to this page: http://homepage1.nifty.com/yoshisan/kuwazu2004.htm it's from 2004.

Because he's popular and draws attention. The Kohaku is losing viewers each year. The Johnny's bands don't need NHK to draw tons of (mostly female) fans. MMA (K-1 and PRIDE) draw viewers from the Kohaku. Note how they've increased the amount of comedians and talentos appearing on the show. With all ...

Thanks groink! I have it on tape but it's good to have a version sitting on my computer to look at whenever I feel like having a laugh!

This year's show seemed to be relying a lot on outside (re: non-music performer) talent what with Ninety-Nine's Okamura, Kyaeen, Aki Hoshino, the Eigo de Shaberanaito gang etc etc. It made the show a bit more entertaining although when the Muscle Musical ( http://www.musclemusical.com/ ) people are ...