A travelling exhibition featuring the Japanese cartoon cat,
Doraemon, will land in Beijing this Saturday. In promotion for the
event, a robotic kitten and his friends visited sick children at
the Beijing Children's Hospital on Wednesday.
Actors donned Doraemon look-alike suits and handed out toy gifts
to the kids. The excitable youngsters tried all kinds of tests to
discover whether the life-size toy was a real or not.
The exhibition, which just concluded its Shanghai tour on July
29, was the first such production since the cat was born some 37
years ago.
The Beijing leg of the exhibition will kick off at the Haidian
Exhibition Centre from August 11.
The Doraemon character was created by Japanese cartoonist Fujiko
F. Fujio in 1969. In the story, the robot cat was sent back in time
from the 22nd century to aid a schoolboy, Nobita Nobi.
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A sick child at the Beijing Children's
Hospital touches the nose of cartoon character Doraemon, who
visited the hospital on Wednesday, August 8.
Sick children at the Beijing Children's
Hospital have a group photo taken with popular cartoon cat Doraemon
and his friends, who visited them on Wednesday, August
8.
(CRI.cn August 9, 2007)
