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Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura appointed Doraemon, the cartoon robot cat well-loved in Japan and Asia but little-known in the United States, last week to be Japan’s world ambassador for anime.

MSNBC reports that Minister Komura exhorted a life-size Doraemon (left) to “travel around the world as an anime ambassador to deepen people’s understanding of Japan so they will become friends with Japan,” to which Doraemon’s voice actor Wasabi Mizuta answered from behind a screen, “Through my cartoons, I hope to convey to people abroad what ordinary Japanese people think, our lifestyles and what kind of future we want to build.”

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