Kumamon rules! Lesser yurukyara get the ax . . .

May 9, 2014 at 08:30 JST 2014

“This month a Tokyo jeweller unveiled a gold figurine of the bear worth 100m yen (£580,000) Kumamon has 339,000 followers on Twitter, 159,000 “likes” on his official Facebook page and last year entertained the emperor and empress during their visit to Kumamoto prefecture.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/08/moppy-mascot-japan-cull-cuddly-ambassadors

Moppy the mascot survives Japan's cull of cuddly ambassadors

Bird-like promotional character to become Osaka's core representative but fellow mascots face mass extermination

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