An all-girl Japanese pop group has taken on the task of raising funds to help a lonely Tasmanian wombat find new love.
Fuku the 11-year-old wombat is originally from Tasmania and has lived at the Satsukiyama zoo in Osaka since 2007.
He moved to Japan with his intended breeding partner Ayaha, but in 2010 she died after a long illness.
Satsukiyama zoo's deputy curator Kozo Sejima thought it was time Fuku found a new love.
"He's been alone since then so we believe he would like to have a partner," Mr Sejima said.
Mr Sejima said Fuku leads an active life, taking an interest in digging holes and daytime naps – an agreeable partner for any young female wombat on the market.
The local government in Japan had promised to approach Australian zoos and find him a mate - but first they needed to raise the $AU50,000.
The Satsukiyama zoo does not charge for admissions and so did not have any spare cash for projects like Fuku's plight for a mate.
That's where pop group The Keeper Girls came to the rescue.
The all-girl group partnered up with the zoo to raise the estimated $AU50,000 required to transport a female wombat from Australia.
In an effort to do this, they wrote a song about the lonely wombat and planned to perform and sell their CD and merchandise.