5 September 2014

In Japan, A Real Life ‘Batman’ That Brings Smiles To People

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‘Batman’ exists in real life—and he has been going around bringing smiles to the people of Japan since three years ago.



Riding through the city of Chiba in Japan on his sleek three-wheeled ‘Chibatpod’, the 41-year-old welder would go around in his Batman costume lifting the spirits of onlookers.



“I started doing this around three years ago. As for my reasons, during the great earthquake, people forgot how to smile. I wanted to help bring the smiles back, and that’s why I started,” he told BBC News.



Check out the heartening video below:



































[via Laughing Squid, images via BBC News]