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Fans waiting at Tokyo Narita International Airport2. Japanese media waiting at Tokyo Narita International Airport3. Billy Blanks and daughter Shellie arriving at Tokyo Narita International Airport4. Billy Banks waving at airport...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Fans waiting at Tokyo Narita International Airport\u003cbr/\u003e2. Japanese media waiting at Tokyo Narita International Airport\u003cbr/\u003e3. Billy Blanks and daughter Shellie arriving at Tokyo Narita International Airport\u003cbr/\u003e4. Billy Banks waving at airport crowd\u003cbr/\u003e5. Billy shadow boxing camera as he boards bus to hotel\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Voxpop: Japanese fan at airport\u003cbr/\u003e\"My favorite exercise is this movement while holding the Billy-band.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Pan from the Tokyo Dome to Prism Hall\u003cbr/\u003e8. Billy Blanks Live In Japan sign outside Prism Hall\u003cbr/\u003e9. Japanese fans entering Prism Hall for Billy Banks' demonstration\u003cbr/\u003e10. Participants in the Billy Blanks workout waiting on Billy to appear\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (Japanese) Voxpop: Billy Bootcamp participant\u003cbr/\u003e\"One of the people at work started this first and it has since become popular among people in our company. So I've started.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Billy Blanks and his exercise team being announced to Japanese fans at Prism Hall\u003cbr/\u003e13. Billy Blanks begins his first workout session\u003cbr/\u003e14. Billy Blanks changes his workout routine and visits with fans on the exercise floor\u003cbr/\u003e15. Close-up of Japanese women doing the Billy Bootcamp workout.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English) Billy Blanks, Exercise Guru \u003cbr/\u003e\"It's awesome, you know what I mean.  Who ever thought it would be so big in this place?  Me and my daughter when we came here and we saw this we were like, 'wow!' people here are really taking Bootcamp on . \"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Japanese participants practicing kick routine.\u003cbr/\u003e17. Four of the Billy Bootcamp DVDs lying on the interview table.\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Billy Blanks, Exercise Guru \u003cbr/\u003e\"Yeah I was surprised to get off at the airport and to see all those people cheering you on with posters and signs.  It was awesome.  It was something like I have never seen before.  You know I saw people do that for the Beatles.  I saw even Michael Jackson, like you said earlier, but this was an awesome thing to be able to get off the plane and see people be that happy about seeing somebody. \"\u003cbr/\u003e19. Billy Blanks gives personal tips during the workout and talks to TV camera\u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE: (English)  Billy Blanks, Exercise Guru \u003cbr/\u003e\"It's all about reaching out and touching somebody and if you can really show a person that they got the power within side of them but they got to learn how to release it.  That, that saysďż˝ what bigger present can you get than to have a person say, 'Man, thank you for helping me out.  Now I know that I can do this,' and to me that's awesome.  That's what has been happening here in Japan.  People see that hey you got the power. You got to let go. I can't force you to do it you have to make yourself do it and once you get a chance to see out of your own eyes that you can do it and people go, 'Wow. He's right.  I can do it.' And to me that is awesome because now they are not dependent on me they are dependant on themselves. \"\u003cbr/\u003e21. Billy and Shellie demonstrating workout on stage.\u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Shellie, Billy's daughter \u003cbr/\u003e\"To teach somebody how to reach inside and find happiness when the time is tough or when or they are facing a challenge knowing and knowing that they can get through it and helping them do that, it is the best present you could ever get.  And it inspires us to keep going and keep trying and thinking of new things to keep people going.\"\u003cbr/\u003e23. Billy Blanks leads entire crowd into Victory chant.\u003cbr/\u003e24. SOUNDBITE: (Japanese) Voxpox, Japanese fan\u003cbr/\u003e\"Attractiveness of Billy?  I guess that it is his encouragement.  I didn't lose the weight within a week, which is the unconditional money-back guarantee.  However, I felt the difference.  I'm getting into better shape.  Later on, you'll see the difference, losing the weight day-by-day.  So I can continue doing that everyday with his encouragement, even when I am tired from work.\"\u003cbr/\u003e25. Billy and entourage saying goodbye on stage.\u003cbr/\u003eJapan is playing host to a surprise superstar.\u003cbr/\u003eBut even the people behind the Billy Bootcamp workout DVDs have been taken aback at the popularity of the exercise guru, Billy Blanks.  \u003cbr/\u003eOn his first trip to Japan, the exercise man from America has been greeted like a rock star.\u003cbr/\u003eBilly Blanks, the creator of the Tae Bo fitness regimen, became an icon to get-fit fanatics and Hollywood stars more than 10 years ago.\u003cbr/\u003eBut that was then, and in the here and now it is his newest regime, Billy's Bootcamp, which has made him once again a household name and fitness phenomenon in Japan.\u003cbr/\u003eScores of fans and media turned out at Tokyo's Narita International Airport to welcome Blanks and his daughter Shellie to Japan.  \u003cbr/\u003eOne fan demonstrated her favourite exercise for the camera. \u003cbr/\u003eBarely on the ground he was taken to one Japanese show after another, and called on to give one of his fabled \"Billy's Bootcamp\" demonstrations at Prism Hall, located in the heart of the massive Tokyo Dome complex.\u003cbr/\u003eOne participant said that lots of people at her workplace follow the exercise regime. \u003cbr/\u003eBilly Blanks says he is pleased people in Japan has embraced his concept. \u003cbr/\u003eBlanks says that she was suprised people were waiting to welcome him at the airport. \u003cbr/\u003eHe says the routines empower people to have more confidence in themselves. \u003cbr/\u003eBlank's daughter Shellie agrees that it helps people to get thorugh the bad times. \u003cbr/\u003eBlanks and his daughter charged up a crowd of nearly 100 specially selected participants for a workout that left many, including Blanks and his daughter, sweating profusely.\u003cbr/\u003eOne participtant says that although he didn't lose as much weight as quickly as he had hoped he could feel the difference to his fitness levels. \u003cbr/\u003eBlank said the experience in Japan has been totally awesome and has left him with a deep sense of humility.\u003cbr/\u003eEditorial note: \u003cbr/\u003eaccording to Billy Blanks' Web site - he was born the fourth of 15 children to Isaac and Mabeline Blanks. 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