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Mascot Grand Prix 2012: Mr. Bari the Baby Chicken Declared Winner
Anyone who’s been to Japan knows that it’s a mascot loving country. Everything from attack choppers to Windows OS to Temples has a cute moe character representing it. I remember when I first came to...
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Aichi Prefecture City’s New Mascot Character Scares Local Children, Haunts...
As we’ve seen before, Japan is no stranger to weird and wonderful mascots. Showing up at festivals and parades, these bouncy fellows wave at townspeople and visitors as if their lives depended on it,...
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Teruhiko stirs up controversy on the net and makes a mean yakisoba
The yuru-kyara world watches with a cautious eye as recent unofficial mascot Teruhiko has been steadily building a fan base online. This slightly emo looking mascot character operating out of Hakodate...
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Yamagata fireworks show to introduce new mascot, Hanapon the halo of...
This 14 August, Yamagata City will be holding its 34th Yamagata Fireworks show, one of the biggest in the Tohoku area. This year the festivities will be represented by Hanapon, the new yuru-kyara...
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Jiggly yellow pear, Funasshi, named top mascot in Japan
After two weeks of voting, Funasshi, the official yuru-kyara (mascot) representing Funabashi City in Chiba Prefecture, has come out as the number one local mascot in all of Japan. Known for his amazing...
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Scowling mascot brings a little fame to Japan’s least popular prefecture
Shimane Prefecture, ever heard of it? If your answer is a resounding “no,” you’re not alone. The oddly shaped prefecture stretching along the western coast of Japan is barely known within its own...
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Glico gets some cute new mascot characters, but no one can figure out why
For decades snack company Ezaki Glico has supplied Japan with delicious munchies such as Pocky, Pretz, and Papico, not to mention a slew of other snacks that don’t happen to begin with the letter P!...
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Hokuto City chooses developmentally challenged sushi as new mascot
Every once in a while we report on the bustling mascot business in Japan, especially regarding the regional cute mascots known as yuru-kyara. Often these characters are chosen to represent a city,...
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You’re not seeing things, that’s a cat selling roasted sweet potatoes
It’s a common sight to see hot dog stands in America. In Singapore, ice cream stands are a lifesaver in the sweltering hot weather. In Japan, however, you’re more likely to find a yaki-imo (roasted...
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Experience the ultimate moe flight with Asian Air x Mirai Airlines
Danny Choo, founder of Culture Japan and inexhaustible ambassador for all things moe, announced the collaboration between his mascot Mirai Suenaga and the Thai airline Asian Air on his website this...
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Fishermen in Hokkaido hope their shrimpy anime mascot will convince you to...
When you’re in charge of marketing for an organization with a name as bland as Kitarumoi Fishery Cooperative Association, we can see how you’d come to the conclusion that your employer could use a...
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Chaozu-kun joins the ranks of unsettling Japanese mascots
Move over Marimokkori, there’s a new creepy mascot in town! The Japan Gyoza Association (because apparently that’s a thing) has just introduced a new character that’s making people vaguely queasy:...
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American newscaster can’t stop laughing at crazy Japanese mascot
Japan has more than its fair share of ridiculous mascots, ranging from the absurdly muscled pot sticker, Chaozu-kun, to the snarky Yoshida-kun representing the country’s least popular prefecture. But...
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Osaka airport’s new mascot is adorable, laid-back, possibly drunk
Osaka International Airport has a deceptively confusing name. First, although its mailing address is indeed in Osaka, a large portion of the facility actually spills over the border into neighboring...
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Netizens balk at Ibaraki Prefecture town’s sea life-encrusted mascot character
Anyone who has ever visited Japan or spent any amount of time browsing our pages will know that the country is home to literally hundreds of mascot characters, or yurukyara, each weirder than the...
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These anime mascots are just what the World Cup has been missing!
Here at RocketNews24 we believe there are few things that can’t be improved with a sprinkling of anime style – even sports mascots. So we were thrilled to learn that one mystery artist has created...
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Tottori City’s starving mascot makes waves and suddenly disappears
From December of last year until this February, Tottori City held an open call for mascot ideas for a character to represent the Tottori Castle ruins. The ruins were named one of Japan’s 100 notable...
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Shimane Prefecture’s shrine-headed mascot is now an adorable rice field
We saw absolutely gorgeous rice field art up in Aomori prefecture just a few months ago, but we’ve never seen rice that looked this cute! Shimane prefecture’s very own mascot character has been turned...
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Shiraishi Island needs YOUR character ideas!
If you went to your town council meeting in your country and told them you wanted to make a cutesy mascot to represent your city, you’d probably get a few smirks from the council members. If you...
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Jiggly Japanese pear mascot lands itself in deep water in the US【Video】
Have you been wondering what Japan’s favorite mascot has been up to lately? Who, you say? Why, Funasshi, of course, Japan’s squiggly wiggly pear mascot from Funabashi City in Chiba! After rocketing to...
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