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title: "Billy's Bootcamp"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy's_Bootcamp"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T11:58:19.176124+00:00"
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instance: "kb-cron"
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Billy's Bootcamp is an exercise program developed by Billy Blanks. It created a pop culture phenomenon in Japan in 2007, similar to the effect Tae Bo had in the U.S. earlier, selling more than 200,000 copies in May of the same year alone.
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Billy Blanks visited Japan on June 21, 2007 to promote Bootcamp. Upon arrival Blanks was greeted by 200 Japanese fans who affectionately call him "Taicho" (Japanese: 隊長, chief) at Narita International Airport. Blanks appeared on many Japanese TV shows during his ten-day stay in Japan such as SMAP×SMAP where Shingo Katori, a member of popular Japanese boy band SMAP, impersonated Blanks.
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A tie-in video game based on the program, titled Billy's Bootcamp: Wii de Enjoy! Diet (ビリーズブートキャンプ Wiiでエンジョイダイエット！), was released in 2011 exclusively in Japan for the Wii, as the third and final installment of Rocket Company's Shape Boxing fitness game trilogy.
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== References == |