As shown above, several of the new Happy Meal toys depict Chiikawa and Hachiware as bonafide McDonald's employees with cute black-and-white uniforms. Additionally, some also function as nifty ...

Many visitors at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, love taking photos with cute and interesting mascot characters from different ...

The 1980s were more than happy to follow suit ... The non-Japanese-speaking world’s encounter with kawaii is through colorful, hyper-cute fashion or art, and not through babies, puppies ...

Integral to the global phenomena of cute, the exhibition asserts, is “kawaii,” a Japanese word which literally translates as “cuteness.” According to the exhibition, modern kawaii culture ...

A timeline cleanse is meant to interrupt that cycle with a reprieve from the chaos. “I think kawaii, or cute feelings, reminds us of human connection that we sometimes forget,” says Hiroshi ...

As the economy progressed through the 1970s and 1980s, so did consumer subcultures – and cute as a style began ... saw the refreshing of the ultimate kawaii brand, Hello Kitty, expanded to ...

(By the time Westerners adopted the cute life, Japan had a wealth of kawaii animal characters to offer.) “UwU” — the emoticon pronounced “oo-woo,” representing a smitten face that would ...

But in Japan, we also see how she may appear happy if you're happy ... stems from a misunderstanding of “kawaii,” which is Japanese for “cute” but also connotes a lovable or adorable ...

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 ...