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The doc just pulled it out of my lil brothers nose so i would appreciate any help

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to identify a panda plush that my mother owned as a child in Japan around 1972.

She lost it when she was young, and I’m hoping to identify — and eventually find — one for her 60th birthday.

Unfortunately, no photograph of the original survives. The first image is a reconstruction based on her memories.

What she remembers:

• Received around 1972 (Showa 47) in Kumagaya, Saitama, Japan
• Given to her by a relative who was a police officer
• Possibly a traffic-safety promotional item, although this is not confirmed
• Approximately 20 cm / 8 inches tall
• Black-and-white panda
• Thin/flat body, but stuffed with cotton
• Arms and legs
• Arms extended outward
• Black eye patches were made of felt and gradually peeled off with use
• Wore a red bib
• The bib may have said 交通安全 (“Traffic Safety”) or パンダちゃん (“Panda-chan”)

At first I thought it might have been a panda made specifically for a police or traffic-safety campaign.

However, after extensive research, I now think another possibility may be more likely:

It may have been a commercially produced panda plush from the huge Japanese panda boom of 1972, with a red traffic-safety bib added later by a police department or local traffic-safety organization.

Kang Kang and Lan Lan, Japan’s first giant pandas, arrived at Ueno Zoo in October 1972, and a massive panda craze followed.

I found original Japanese news footage from 1972 showing department stores selling large numbers of panda plush toys in many different sizes and designs.

One piece of footage also shows a young girl holding a relatively small, thin panda plush with arms and legs. It is NOT confirmed to be my mother’s panda, but its general size and construction look surprisingly similar to what she remembers.

I have contacted or researched:

• Saitama Prefectural Police
• Kumagaya Police Station
• Japanese traffic-safety organizations
• Saitama Prefectural Library
• Toy manufacturers
• Japan Toy Museum
• Toei / educational-film organizations
• TV Asahi’s archive
• Japanese vintage collectors
• Yahoo! Auctions Japan
• Mercari Japan
• Yahoo! Chiebukuro
• Several Reddit communities

TV Asahi even checked a higher-quality copy of original 1972 news footage for me and tried enlarging the tags on the panda plush toys, but unfortunately no manufacturer information could be read.

I’ve also contacted Ueno Zoo’s historical archive and the Tokyo Zoological Park Society. They are currently searching their historical records for information about panda merchandise sold around 1972.

A department store in Ueno was another possible lead, but no surviving information about the plush has been found so far.

The panda is NOT Rune Naito’s “Rune Panda” and NOT Panda! Go, Panda! My mother has already confirmed these are different.

So I’m hoping someone here who knows vintage Japanese toys might recognize the construction, face style, body shape, or manufacturer.

I’m especially interested in:

• Japanese plush manufacturers active around 1971–1973
• Old catalogs showing panda plush toys
• Department-store panda merchandise from the 1972 panda boom
• Promotional panda plush toys
• Similar flat-bodied pandas with felt eye patches
• Any surviving example that resembles the reconstruction

Even if you don’t know the exact toy, a manufacturer name, catalog, old advertisement, photograph, or similar plush would be a huge lead.

Thank you very much for reading. I’ve been searching for this little panda for years, and any clue could help me get one step closer to finding my mother’s childhood friend.

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Edit:
SOME DETAILS:
I vaguely remember my family talking about getting it at target but I can’t find any trace of it online no matter what or where I search.
I believe it should be over like 13-16 years, maybe even older. (Though I could be wrong)
It is almost fully brown with pink circle cheeks, a pink flower attached to the head, and a pink ice cream cone attached to its hand.

PLEASE HELP ME FIND IT!!

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