Doraemon train debuts in Tokyo, celebrating icon's 50th anniv.

A train featuring Doraemon, the robotic cat from a popular series of comics and cartoons, was unveiled on Thursday in Tokyo to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Japanese cultural icon.Seibu Railway Co. showed the eight-car "Doraemon-Go!" train, which is decorated with images inspired by the character and the secret gadgets it uses, to the press ahead of the train's first run on Thursday afternoon."We would like to give a dream to our passengers with the help of Doraemon," Kimio Kitamura, head of the company, said during a ceremony at a rail yard in Tokyo.Doraemon, who trave…READ FULL ARTICLE