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Video: Hello Kitty and Doraemon Rice - 香嵐渓 Korankei Park - Toyota City - JapanOriginal at YouTube
• Mon, Nov 24
By rss@youtube.com (athenathon77) No lindo parque Korankei...um arroz caprichado de Salsicha Hello Kitty e Doraemon! Elaine mulher melancia guarda recordacoes especiais desse arroz rs... A Hello Kitty (em japonês ハローキティ, transl. Harōkiti) é um dos muitos personagens criados pela empresa japonesa Sanrio. O personagem é a fig...
Mandatory filtering software ignites outrage in China
Original at MSNBC
• Wed, Jun 17
guardian.co.uk Testers loaded pictures of three world famous cats – Garfield and two Japanese characters Doraemon and Hello Kitty – to see whether the filter worked. The result? Doraemon – OK. Hello Kitty – OK. Garfield – "This information is malicious! ...
Green Dam it: Chinese software blocks Garfield
Original at ABC Online
• Mon, Jun 15
Australia Hello Kitty and the Japanese robo-cat Doraemon made it through, but not Garfield. The South China Morning Post found that being pink and showing too much flesh was a key element, so photos of babies and pigs were also blocked. ...
Isidoro: il gatto burlone ancora sulla breccia
Original at TVblog.it
• Wed, Jun 3
Italy Silvestro che ha sempre la peggio rispetto al tenero Titti, Tom (antagonista di Gerry) nato dall'estro di Hanna e Barbera, Garfield pigro e goloso di lasagne, Doraemon il gatto-robot venuto dal futuro, e ancora la tenera gattina bianca Hello Kitty. ...
Japan's new envoys aim to spread cute to the world
Original at 3 News NZ
• Sun, Mar 15
• 2 related articles
New Zealand Last May, the Hello Kitty cartoon character became Japan's tourism ambassador and a cartoon cat, Doraemon, was named the "anime ambassador" a few months before that. All represent an effort by the Foreign Ministry to advertise Japanese culture in a ...
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General News
Original at Borglobe
• Thu, Nov 20
• 2 related articles
Sudan - In May, Japan designated Hello Kitty as a tourism ambassador, two months after Doraemon, the aqua-hued robot feline, was named the nation's first cartoon ...
Related articles from Globe and Mail, google.com.
Anime Characters
Original at Minami Uonuma City Daily Photo
• Sat, Nov 8
By takeyoshi Pictured above are some of the famous anime characters in Japan. Doraemon, Hello Kitty, Pokemon, etc. Anime (アニメ, Anime? literally - "Anima", taken from half of "animation") (pronounced [anime] listen (help·info) in Japanese, ...
Chou’s charms
Original at Malaysia Star
• Sat, Nov 1
Malaysia - Nov 1, 2008 In the ballad Time Machine, he evokes the childhood of Gen X-ers with references to Doraemon, Japan’s most iconic cartoon cat after Hello Kitty. ...
Round-up: Top 5 of the cutest Japanese gadgets of the last 2 weeks
Original at CrunchGear
• Mon, Oct 27
By Serkan Toto Doraemon, the robot cat / hero of millions of Japanese kids, is featured on a special edition of the Casio Exilim EX-Z20 [JP]. The 8.1-megapixel camera will be sold in Japan only starting December for $340. Top 3: Hello Kitty toaster ...
Doraemon Exilim camera smiles, makes you do it too
Original at kilian-nakamura.com
• Thu, Oct 16
By Michael Sure, Doraemon might be for kids, but Japan’s “Anime Ambassador” is popular across age groups (not to Hello Kitty levels of course). This new Exilim camera from Casio mixes smile detection technology with Dora-chan to create a new ...
Tourist tat touts take home the big money thanks to homeboy character souvenirs
Original at Mainichi Daily News
• Thu, Jul 26
Some of Japan's most treasured characters, like Hello Kitty, Doraemon, Domo-kun and even the imported Kewpie are proving a boon for souvenir sellers across the country after being given a facelift to reflect local specialties, according to Sunday Mainichi (8/5).
Disneyland and Hello Kitty-land in the Land of the Free (Youtube)Original at mrbrown: L'infantile terrible of Singapore ("mr brown is a very talented man..." -Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister)
• Tue, May 8
By mrbrown This is a Japanese news report on the infamous Shijingshan Amusement Park in Beijing, an eerie clone of Disneyland mentioned in Boing Boing. There's even Shrek, Hello Kitty and Doraemon sharing the limelight with Goofy, Mickey and Donald.