Updated: Apr 10, 2024
I’m so surprised but it seems that Funassyi can speak Chinese. Amazing!
Updated: Apr 10, 2024
Seemingly, Japanese people generally prefer mascot dolls. What do you call these kinds of dolls in your country? In Japan, there are hundreds of mascot characters in the region, and that's called “Yuru-Kyara”.
Such mascot dolls are made by companies, city halls, and individuals. Even in the company which I’m working at, actually, we have an original Yuru-Kyara doll.
In this country, the most famous Yuru-Kyara dolls are “Kuma-mon” and “Funassyi”, I can say. Kuma-mon has been created by the Kumamoto prefecture government. Funassyi has been created by the Funabashi city hall and he is very funny.
You may think that they have a lot of spare time on their business, because they can make such characters, in regional governments. Rather, they try to advertise their own local governments earnestly. They hope that many tourists will come to their region. Therefore, many local governments make their own mascot dolls very hard.
Japan is a mysterious country, you may think. That’s right. If they have such free time to make dolls, they have better to get holidays. Because they definitely work without getting holidays.
“I will go to the stones concert with my children in March”. Some weeks ago, my coworkers were chatting in our office. One was talking to another, and another worker has replied to her.
"What's?" I talked to myself at the time. As for me, I thought her talks are a bit mysterious. Because I didn’t hear that the Rolling Stones would come to Japan to hold their concert. Absolutely.
I know that they would never come to Japan because they are more than 70 years old. My wife has been crazy for the Rolling Stones when she was younger, so she went to the concert in Tokyo leaving me in our house, around the time when we were 20s. And she also didn't think that the Rolling Stones come to Japan again.
So, I tried to research the name of “stones”, then mystery was resolved. It seems that there is a boys group named “Sixstones” here in Japan. They are a group of dance and music. And it seems that they are called “stones”.
I think, when you call “stones” that definitely means the Rolling Stones in this world. Take care, Japanese young people!