Could you just imagine if here in the US we used mascots to make the public more aware of issues relating to our safety? We already screwed up with Elvis as a Drug Czar (Thanks, naive Nixon), so which mascot would be our Drug Czar today?

They are all so loopy and quirky that you could say that all of them have symptoms of some sort of medical/recreational use.

Full article on Japanese mascots here: Japanese Mascots: A New, Effective and Charming Invasion.

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