Popular mascot character joins "scrapbook relay" to promote newspapers

Popular mascot character joins "scrapbook relay" to promote newspapers

Kumamon (R), a popular mascot character representing Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, hands his handmade newspaper scrapbook to Hyakumansan, a mascot of Ishikawa Prefecture, in Kanazawa, central Japan, on July 30, 2015. The handover was part of a "scrapbook relay" by some local government mascots to promote a project organized by the Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association to attract a broader readership among the younger generation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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