Japan loves mascot characters, part of its unholy obsession with anything "cute."
If you want a list of such characters, it's hard to know where to begin. Yet, if we must, there's Domo-kun, the NHK television mascot, who resembles a walking square of chocolate, only with a gaping, blood-red mouth and teeth perpetually bared as if to bite.
Yeah . . . adorable.
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