{"id":850,"date":"2018-05-01T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/?p=850"},"modified":"2018-05-01T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:00:14","slug":"the-local-mascots-big-sports-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/01\/the-local-mascots-big-sports-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Local Mascots’ Big Sports Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chippa-kun (mascot of Kids Dom Park) and Matsudo-san.<\/p><\/div>\n

In a remote part of Chiba Prefecture there’s an adventure park called Kids Dom, and last Sunday they held a mascot event called the Gotouchi-chara Dai-Undokai (Local Mascots’ Big Sports Festival). This get-together attracted more than eighty mascots and entailed various competitive games such as an epic relay race and a balloon-popping contest. Presiding over the event was Kids Dom’s curious birdlike yellow mascot, Chippa-kun. Popular yuru-chara in attendance included Fukkachan, Kimipyon, Chiba-kun, and Hanipon, and there was a rare appearance from the Japanese national baseball team’s mascot, Samurai Tamabe, a samurai with a baseball\/bear hybrid head.<\/p>\n

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Fukkachan (Welsh onion-eared mascot of Fukaya City) and Kimipyon (azalea-eared pink creature from Kimitsu City).<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lookalikes, Narashido and Kitamin<\/p><\/div>\n

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Arukuma, the apple-headed rambling bear from Nagano Prefecture<\/p><\/div>\n

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Samurai Tanabe, the mascot for Japan’s national baseball team<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sacchan, mascot of Ichikai Town<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jeffy, mascot for the soccer team, Jef United Chiba<\/p><\/div>\n

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Gentle Parco, a fancy frog who is the mascot for a shopping street in Yashio City.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Anebon, the mascot of Ichihara City, is a temple bell who hits himself with a squeaky hammer.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Damedosu<\/p><\/div>\n

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P-Nyatsu, the cat\/peanut<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hanipon<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kyarotsuta the horse, mascot of Funabashi Racecourse.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fuuta-kun the red panda (Chiba Zoo mascot) takes part in a balloon-bursting contest.<\/p><\/div>\n\n

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In a remote part of Chiba Prefecture there’s an adventure park called Kids Dom, and last Sunday they held a mascot event called the Gotouchi-chara Dai-Undokai (Local Mascots’ Big Sports Festival). This get-together attracted more than eighty mascots and entailed various competitive games such as an epic relay race and a balloon-popping contest. Presiding over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-mascots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}