How A Kangaroo Helped Japanese Game Shows Get Charitable
Tokyo Broadcasting System ran the very successful TBS Kangaroo Fund from 1976 to 2010, first to help children orphaned by traffic accidents, people with disabilities and the elderly before moving to help other social causes. TBS never publicly explained its choice of a kangaroo to symbolize the fund, but the marsupial infers a friendly, protective…

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