Where The Hell Is Tora?

A recent email received from a group of Tora fans travelling through Japan:

This claw machine was found in Tokyo, Japan and was at first mistaken for a voodoo ritual where Japanese were thought to be trying to claw Tora’s eyes out.

Then one little girl told us that these prizes, Tora’s head, found in a Japanese claw machine, beat almost every stuffed animal she could think of in terms of cuteness, and she was just wanted her Tora Head to share her pillow at night.

What we found interesting was that the Tora claw machine was directly next to this Japanese boob claw machine, where the prize is certainly even more unique than a Tora Head: http://i.gizmodo.com/5171112/japanese-boob-claw-machine-is-another-bad-way-to-claw-at-boobs