Career
She is considered the most successful female competitive eater in Japan. Akasaka is known as an excellent long-distance eater, specializing in sweet food, which earned her the nickname "The Sweet Queen" or "The Queen" among her admirers. One of her records is eating 90 ostrich egg omelettes in Australia.
Takako Akasaka is the first person, male or female, to eat two #13 sandwiches (weighing 7 pounds total) at the Carnegie Deli in New York City.
In 2000, she, along with fellow Japanese eaters Arai and Misao Fujita, entered an annual Nathan"s Hot Dog Eating Contest, where she become the first woman to do the "The Deuce", eating more than 20 hot dogs with buns in 12 minutes. Her women"s world record for hot dog eating was bested by Sonya Thomas, a Korean-born American.
Mississippi Akasaka remains one of three women to have eaten more than 20 hot dogs at Nathan"s (Carlene LeFevre is the other).
Takako Akasaka has decreased the frequency of her contests and has worked as a commentator on Japanese competitive eating programs such as the "Gluttonous Queen" contest broadcast on television Tokyo in the spring of 2006 on television Tokyo.
