Interest: Manga/Anime's Tiger Mask Inspires 3 More Gift-Givers

On Friday, three more children's centers in Japan received school backpacks and 100,000 yen (about US$1,200) from people inspired by the "Tiger Mask" donations on Christmas and New Year's Day.
A mysterious donor had left 10 30,000-yen (US$360) backpacks at a child guidance center in Gunma Prefecture on Christmas morning. The attached letter was signed "Naoto Date" — the alter ego of Tiger Mask, a manga/anime pro wrestler who fights for children in an orphanage. About 200 kilometers (120 miles) to the south, the Odawara Child Guidance Center in Kanagawa Prefecture discovered six more backpacks from another "Naoto Date" on New Year's Day.

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300 kilometers (180 miles) to the northwest, the central child guidance center in Nagano City received an express package of six new backpacks on Friday afternoon. While these gifts were not signed by "Naoto Date," the accompanying letter did say that they were given in the same spirit as the previous gifts. Similar to the earlier gifts, the three black backpacks were in boxes gift-wrapped in blue and the three red backpacks were in boxes gift-wrapped in pink. The typed letter read, "I also have a child who is entering first grade this year." It was signed, "A belated Santa Claus." The center is giving these backpacks to incoming first-graders in orphanages.

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