The national junior high school sports festival was held in Tokushima Prefecture in the summer of 1993. This character was created to be the festival mascot and he's hung on as the prefectural mascot. A sudachi is a small citrus used mostly for sauces, though they are sometimes served with sashimi so you can squeeze a bit of juice into your soy sauce. I found this plush toy sitting on a seat in the Prefectural International Exchange library when I went to borrow "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" today. You can see statues of Sudachi-kun here and there and meet him, with a real live person inside, at all kinds of local events.
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