said shoppers Kara Nakagawa and Kailey Kurashige. The new Miniso location will not only bring more Sanrio products to Hawaii but also products from BT21 and more, which can be harder to find in ...

Sanrio created an entire line of Hawaii Hello Kitty plushies and merchandise that are a hit for tourists as they are hard to find anywhere but on the islands. Is Hello Kitty helping boost the ...

Sanrio—today worth $4.6 billion —was founded ... an anthropology professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and author of Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific.

She and her three friends — equally adorned in pastel pink and some in permanent Sanrio tattoos — vibrated ... a retired professor from the University of Hawaii who spent years studying ...