Sanrio solidifies its dominance in the world of anime-style mascots in a new Japanese "Gen Z" survey ranking popular trends ...

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

The rise of Hello Kitty. At the end of World War II, Japan faced a reckoning. The country’s surrender in 1945 forced its political leaders to confront the consequences of the nation’s ...

And kawaii style can be traced further back, the London-based Japanese animator Miki Kato argues in her 2002 essay, “Cute Culture,” to centuries-old Japanese aesthetic principles that prize ...

The new drawn-in-Japan Tom and Jerry cartoons aren’t replacing the old ones in Japan, though. The new Tom and Jerry will be a series of animated shorts shown on Cartoon Network’s Japan broadcast, ...

In Japan, ‘cute’ is a big deal. Their own word for it, kawaii (“ka-why-ee”), is more of an ethos than an adjective. Shops and billboards are filled with big-eyed fluffy figures.

Exploring centuries-old Kabuki theater in Japan and their booming Kawaii culture. Posted: May 31, 2025 | Last updated: June 6, 2025. ABC News’ Juju Chang alongside Broadway’s Don Darryl dives ...

How Japan's "most famous" artist, and others, are subverting the country's cute "kawaii" aesthetic to question the world we live in. More than a millennium ago, the Japanese empress Fujiwara no ...

Sanrio recruited Shimizu and other illustrators to create “kawaii” characters at a time when cute, girlish styles were popular in Japan. But the word is used often in Japanese society, and not ...

AIEA, Hawaii (KHON2) — The “Kawaii Friends Fair” kicks off Thanksgiving weekend at Pearlridge Center. Kawaii means cute in Japanese, so you can expect there will be cute offerings from local ...