Giant puppet appears at Olympics cultural event in tsunami-hit city

Giant puppet appears at Olympics cultural event in tsunami-hit city

A giant puppet nicknamed MOCCO appears during a Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics cultural event in Rikuzentakata, an Iwate Prefecture city severely hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, on May 15, 2021. The 10-meter puppet will tour the two other disaster-affected northeastern Japan prefectures of Miyagi and Fukushima later in the month to attend a similar cultural event, themed on the region's recovery from the disaster.

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