MEET THIS CHARACTERNagaoka City, Niigata
Wanja
ワンジャ
Registered organizationJA Echigo Chuetsu
Added to this catalog August 23, 2026
CHARACTER FACTS
Meet Wanja
Wanja is a mascot listed in our Japanese character catalog for Nagaoka City, Niigata.
- Registered area
- Nagaoka City, Niigata
- Registered organization
- JA Echigo Chuetsu
From the recorded profile
This is a translation of the source description. Dates, affiliations and plans refer to the source’s publication context, not a guarantee of current activity.
Born from a rice-cooking pot, Wanja is the guide dog of JA Echigo Chuetsu, the agricultural cooperative located in the heart of Niigata, a rice-producing region. He races freely around the area, calling its many attractions “Wanja Land...!!” His charming features are his rice-ball-shaped head and rice-grain-shaped eyebrows. (He gets dejected when mistaken for a cat.) He can move through pots and rice cookers in the fourth dimension, and when called, he can leap out of any household's rice cooker. (Sometimes he appears even when nobody has called him...⁉)
English translation of the source profile. Names are display translations, not necessarily official English names. Original Japanese names are retained for identification; check official sources for current activity.
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