An employee in Nagoya is masquerading as a polar bear on weekends.
Daigo Takahashi, 37, volunteers as a tour guide on weekends at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in his own homemade polar bear costume.
Visitors are often taken aback when they see the lifelike guise and wonder whether an animal has gotten loose.
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