100 yen shop Daiso has a new elephant mascot, Daizo.

Teddy, a new character who promotes the club scene and street culture of Ikebukuro, will make his debut there at this weekend's Toshima Street Fest.

Isetan Department Store in Tachikawa, Tokyo, has a new mascot named Tachikawa Penzo, a stylish penguin.

Sarunasshi, a mix of a monkey head and a kiwifruit, is a mascot from the town of Karumai in Iwate, Japan.

Yoshikichi the water fairy is the mascot of Yoshida, a town in Shizuoka, Japan. He has a castle hat with a couple of whitebait on top, chrysanthemum earrings, a lettuce scarf, and an eel tail.

Saka Umejiro, a winking green bird, is the mascot of Saka, a town in Hiroshima. He is a clean freak whose hobbies include decluttering and broom collecting.

Sarunasshi, a mix of a monkey head and a kiwifruit, is a mascot from the town of Karumai in Iwate, Japan.

Hibagon, the mascot of rugby team Skyactivs Hiroshima, is a bigfoot-like monster who is shy and hides in his rugby shirt.

Piken-kun, a mix of a peanut and a dog in a hardhat, is the mascot for the construction workers' union in Chiba, Japan.

Saicho is a yellow rhino who promotes garbage separation and recycling in Niigata City, where I spotted him at a summer festival last week.

Raijii, a 20,005-year-old rock ptarmigan bird with a mountain hat, is the mascot of Tateyama town in Japan.

Chiben the tapir lawyer is the bar association mascot for Chiba Prefecture, Japan. He eats nightmares.

Hoku Bucho, a hybrid of a firefly and a middle-aged office manager, is a mascot from Fukuyama City.

Kotochan, a dolphin who is often mistaken for a penguin, serves as both a mascot and a stationmaster for the Kotoden-Kotohira train line.

Search-kun, a mix of a dog and a tomato with an antenna on its head, is the mascot for Tomato House housing agency in Sapporo City.

Erabu, a pig mixed with a lightbulb, is the mascot of Nanwa Energy in Kagoshima City.

Hanepyon, whose head is a plane, is the mascot of Ota-ku, Tokyo (where Haneda airport is.) Hanepyon is dressed as Anne of Green Gables to promote a Canada-themed event in Haneda on August 4th.

The mascot for the Supreme Court of Japan, is Sai-tan, a judge with a monkey's face, a weasel's tail, and a panda's ears.

Nayamazun, a lawyer catfish, is the bar association mascot for Shiga, Japan.

Tougennyan, the new mascot for Youki Foods (created to celebrate their 50th anniversary), is a cat who has turned red from eating spicy food.

Boujii, a big stone that's alive, is the mascot for the town of Taishi in Hyogo, Japan, and is based on ancient boundary stones there.

Yomu-ku, a polar bear who loves reading, is the mascot for publisher Kodansha Bunko.

The town of Minamisanriku in Japan has a moai statue gifted to them by the people of Easter Island after 2011's tsunami. Now Minamisanriku has a mascot named Moa-cho that is a baby moai statue wearing a bear hat.

Kanzou-kun, a mix of a liver and an elephant, is Tokyo's hepatitis screening mascot.