Resident Evil 5 producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi will reprise his role at the head of the project.
Paul di Resta and even Kamui Kobayashi have also been named as possible replacements.
For his victory, Mr Kobayashi received a return plane ticket and the coveted mustard-yellow champion's belt.
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Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa all worked on what is known as symmetry breaking.
Sauber have re-signed Japanese driver Kamui Kobayashi for 2011 but have not yet announced their second driver.
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This year, for the first time, wagers were taken on whether Mr Kobayashi could maintain his dominance.
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At 6-foot-6 and just 180 pounds, Sale is baseball's answer to Takeru Kobayashi, the 128-pound hot-dog eating champion.
About 300 conference-goers watched Mr. Kobayashi swallow 13 grilled-cheese sandwiches in one minute.
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In 2010, Kobayashi was arrested when he stormed the stage at the competition.
"When we carry out major improvements or checks, inevitably people are more likely to receive radiation, " Mr. Kobayashi said.
After the contest, his belly grossly distended, Mr Kobayashi was asked what next.
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Lotus' Kimi Raikkonen and Sauber driver Kamui Kobayashi complete the top ten line up, finishing seventh and eighth respectively.
Kamui Kobayashi of Sauber and Vitaly Petrov for Renault rounded out the point-scoring.
"These days there is no harmony among people, " observes Kojun Kobayashi, 32, a monk at the Sennyuji temple in Kyoto.
Kobayashi set his first record at his debut Nathan's competition in 2001 by eating 50 hot dogs in 12 minutes.
The league places restrictive limits on endorsement and remuneration, his representatives said, and Kobayashi did not want to play along.
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This year, Kobayashi participated in an event titled Crif Dogs, a newer New York hot dog institution, which started in 2001.
CNNMoney's Charles Riley and journalist Chie Kobayashi also contributed to this report.
In past years, Major League Eating hyped up the gastric rivalry between Chestnut and Kobayashi, a serial holder of the mustard yellow belt.
The BMW Sauber pair of Pedro de la Rosa and Kamui Kobayashi were among the first to go out, but they struggled for grip.
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Toyota Motor and its chief executive of Toyota North America, Hideaki Otaka , have been slapped with a sexual-harassment lawsuit filed by Sayaka Kobayashi.
In past years, Major League Eating hyped up the gastric rivalry between Chestnut and another serial holder of the mustard yellow belt, Takeru Kobayashi.
The three brothers in the Kobayashi family in Kichijo-ji, in the western suburbs of Tokyo, found another solution for caring for their aging mother.
This year, Kobayashi is participating in a separate contest all together.
The switching of his investment has cast doubt over the future of Sauber's other driver this year, Japan's Kamui Kobayashi -- who has no major sponsor.
This year, Joey Chestnut downed 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes, crushing Takeru Kobayashi's 2002 mark by almost 20 dogs, and two minutes faster at that.
After eight years of struggle, the so-called Standard Model of particle physics was revised (by Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, of Nagoya University), to accommodate the asymmetry.
In the last week of March, mom-and-pop investors like Mr. Kobayashi accounted for 31% of trading value on Japan's three main exchanges, up from just 20% in October.
The association's new chairman, Yotaro Kobayashi, might even keep up his reforming zeal: he became president of Fuji Xerox, which makes photocopiers, at the tender age of 44.
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