'Tama-chan' seal registered as Yokohama 'resident'

'Tama-chan' seal registered as Yokohama 'resident'

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A kindergartner in Yokohama's Nishi Ward hands ward chief Michinosuke Kimizuka a registry application for ''Tama-chan,'' the seal that has been showing up along the banks of the Katabira River in the city. The seal, first sighted last August in the Tama River, which borders Tokyo and Kanagawa prefectures, was later seen in the Tsurumi River and then in the Katabira River in Kanagawa Prefecture in September.

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