Talk:Sesame Street in Japan

Teena is a girl who likes to sing. Green-furred Mojabo is a bossy character who likes to exercise. Narrator Pierre is a light-blue frog whose partner, Arthur, talks in the Kansai dialect.

"I was thrown in despair after the first training session," Matsuki said. "None of the puppets looked alive."

Now the puppeteers can make the puppets perform ad-lib acts during shooting, Matsuki said..

Kevin Clash, a well-known Sesame Street puppeteer who plays Elmo in the U.S. version, attended the audition for the Japanese puppeteers and trained them to acquire his skills.

Two months after its first broadcast, however, the Japanese version is suffering from low ratings.

Viewer ratings for NHK's "Sesame Street" averaged 1.3 percent between March 2003 and this March. The new version has drawn a rating of about 1.5 percent, TV Tokyo officials say.

Viewers are complaining about the differences in the characters' voices compared with the NHK-aired version and about the exclusive use of Japanese.

"Sesame Street" producer Yoshikazu Beniya said it is difficult to create new stories for a program that already has established a unique set of values over 35 years.

"Even when we think we have come up with a good script, we are told (by Sesame Workshop in the U.S.) to rewrite it because it is 'not suitable' for a 'Sesame Street' program from their viewpoint," said Beniya. Under the arrangement allowing production of the Japanese version, every script must be approved by Sesame Workshop.

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Wouldn't there be a Japanese way of writing it (like "Sesame Sutoriito) or something? --Alexie 19:56, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

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