Haruchan (Haru=Spring, chan=casual form of san, honorific title) is a popular personified Spring character on public broadcast TV NHK’s prime time weather news program. She was made by anthropomorphizing high pressure system in Spring weather. Here is a sample of the weather report program, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu6f4CDix7U On April 4, this virtual character girl began Twitter [J]… Continue reading NHK’s Weather Character Haruchan(@nhk_haruchan) Starts Tweeting