"Is history going to be made with a Japanese bottom?” asks the host of "Officially Amazing," a kids' program that airs on the BBC and features as many world record breakers as it does awful puns.
On that occasion in 2014, history, or the Guinness World Records' version of history — history-lite, if you like — was made: Cherry Yoshitake, the most famous Japanese person you've never heard of, sat on 52 whoopee cushions in 30 seconds, roared on by rows of primary school kids in the English city of St. Albans.
Mr. Cherry, as he is also known, subsequently lost the record this year. Regardless, there are not many celebrities, apart from the obvious candidates of Beyonce and Kim Kardashian, who have milked their buttocks (a strange use of the idiom, but this is a strange subject) quite like Cherry, Japan's leading world record holder.