Funasshi: Japan’s Strangest City Mascot
Last year (2013) was the year of one of the strangest mascots ever to hit the public eye. Funasshi is the unofficial mascot of the mid-sized city of 船橋 (Funabashi), just outside of Tokyo. Unofficial? That means someone just decided that his hometown needed a character to spice things up, created a character based on the pear (なし — nashi), and combined it with the … Continue reading →