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Minchuu, a pouting yellow chef mouse, promotes food from Fuchu City.
Caty, a cheerful cat wearing a bus with wings, is the mascot for Yokohama City’s YCAT airport bus service.
Setoushi-kun, a green-haired, orange guitarist cow, is the mascot for the village of Nishi Okkope in Japan.
The mascot for Danyo Driving School, on Awaji Island, is Tamapon, a tanuki (raccoon dog) dressed as an onion, walking an onion on wheels.
Sakki the mushroom king is the mascot of Sakegawa, a village in Yamagata, Japan.
MeroQ, a mellow patchwork cat, is the mascot for Cuba Pachinko Parlors.
An eel in a panda costume is the new, as-yet-unnamed mascot of Kosai City, created for the city's 50th anniversary. (The local lake is home to the rare “panda eel”.)
Akari-kun, a mix of a dazed dog and a lighthouse, is a mascot from Cape Inubō in Chiba, Japan.
Shoene Holmes, a detective refrigerator dog, is promoting a contest in Setagaya, Tokyo, where the owner of the oldest refrigerator can win a new, energy-saving one.