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Japan: Gundam 30th anniversary

Saturday, July 4th, 2009 @ 03:01 UTC

by Scilla Alecci

Countries:: Japan
Topics:: Ideas, Arts & Culture, Film, Entertainment
Languages:: Japanese, English

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This year is Mobile Suit Gundam's 30th birthday.
While a giant statue of the robot stands in Odaiba's park (in the Tokyo bay area), in a theatre of northern Tokyo, blogger/actress Rie Takahashi [ja] and her crew pay tribute to the animated television series in stage play Robot.

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