Since 1950, Peko-chan, the little girl in pigtails with her trademark grin, has appeared on the packaging for Milky candy and other Fujiya products. In Japan, some store displays include a beautifully sculpted, life size bobble head mascot of Peko-chan. The mascots are highly prized, and often stolen. The pictures below, from a police station in Osaka, reveal the bounty of a sting operation that recovered stolen mascots. The heart wants what the heart wants.
3 comments:
Sounds like the company should start selling the bobble-head displays!
One bobble head heist was carried out by members of the Yakuza (Japanese organized crime)!
I am not sure if these are more or less disturbing than the Blythe Dolls which have been all the rage in Japan for decades?
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