By TAIRA GOTO/ Staff Writer
February 13, 2025 at 07:00 JST
Cosima Oka-Doerge helped arrange this collaboration with Snow Miku, a Hatsune Miku spin-off project, during the International Yukigassen (snowball fight) championship held in Sobetsu, Hokkaido, in 2016. She was a “local vitalization cooperator” for the town at the time. (Provided by Cosima Oka-Doerge, © CFM/SEGA/GSC piapro.net)
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