Kawaii. You hear it in anime, you hear it on TV shows, and you hear it on the streets of Japan, where the word is spoken by young and old alike. With people around the world growing up on Japanese ...

Kawaii – pronounced ka-wai-ee – means ‘cute’, ‘adorable’ or ‘lovely’ in Japanese – and has become a popular part of Japanese culture, referring to things which are cute or ...

Kawaii aesthetics have long been a staple in differing iterations within Japanese culture, where the notoriously cutesy style first emerged as a handwriting style (particularly in girls), and then ...

Providing an in-depth overview of all things kawaii (cute), this book traces the cute aesthetic from its inception in the 1970s as a schoolgirl trend to its position as a leading cultural norm ...

Born from the trauma of World War II, this bow-wearing cartoon icon became a powerful tool for diplomacy, reinvention, and cultural soft power. Dressed in a kimono, Hello Kitty performs a ...

Japan's 'cute culture' has been taking over the world for a while now, but its history and background remain somewhat underappreciated. This exhibition, entitled 'Jakuchu's Adorability and Shoen's ...

And he’s doing it by capturing the hearts of Japan’s young women — not children, his most loyal fans in the U.S. “I started collecting Bob because I think he’s cute and he stands out ...

Cute—"Kawaii" in local parlance—wears many guises in Japan. There's old-school kawaii, embodied by the helpless, mouthless gaze of Hello Kitty. There's the newer guy-cute, manifest by masses ...