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[Shiba-chan] Mascot dog at tobacco stand gives “Omotenashi” (hospitality) to a foreign woman. “Oh, my dog!”
“Shiba-chan” has enjoyed such great popularity that sales of the stand might have increased ten times. I suppose that Shiba-chan has a chance of becoming not a shrine dog but a deity enshrined in Shiba-chan Shrine some day in the future.”
Masatoshi
Takeshita
November
20, 2014
English translation of the excerpt from a
Japanese article: THE HUFFINGTON POST – November 19, 2014 –
[Shiba-chan]
Mascot dog at tobacco stand gives “Omotenashi” (hospitality) to a foreign woman.
“Oh, my dog!”
There is a mascot dog, Shiba Inu “Shiba-chan”
at “Suzuki” tobacco stand in Musashi-koganei, Tokyo.
Friendly Shiba-chan welcomes customers in
the full lush of life.
In August, a foreign woman posted the image
of Shiba-chan on YouTube. It has been in the spotlight since then. As of
November 19, the video has been replayed more than 300,000 times.
Shiba-chan loves cucumbers.
Recently, more and more people have learned
about the tobacco stand by word of mouth and they are visiting the stand.
Reportedly, Shiba-chan sometimes gets slightly tired. In that case, there is a
poster saying “We’d like to ask you to just look quietly at him.”
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