BANGKOK - Thailand's emerging student pro-democracy movement has adopted a Japanese cartoon hamster, Hamtaro, as a creative way to get support from young people around the country.
This past week, three of the protests were themed around Hamtaro, where protesters ran around public places in circles, like a hamster wheel, while singing a modified version of the cartoon's jingle, saying the government loves feasting on taxpayer's money and demanding that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha dissolve parliament.
Japanese publishing house Shogakukan, which owns the licence to Hamtaro, declined to comment on the use of the cartoon in Thai protests when contacted by Reuters. Groups are also planning other themes for protests, including Japanese cartoon character Naruto and Harry Potter.
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