Delight in this duo of playful desserts! One is a vibrant pastel cake surrounded by rainbow-tipped wafer sticks and topped ...

“I think kawaii, or cute feelings, reminds us of human connection that we sometimes forget,” says Hiroshi Nittono, director of the Cognitive Psychophysiology Laboratory at Osaka University.

You can trace the word “kawaii” all the way back to the start of the 11th century, when an early form of it, “kawayushi,” which at the time translated more to “having pitiable qualities ...

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 ...

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

The Japanese word "kawaii" is much more than simply "cute" The Japanese word “kawaii” made it to the English vernacular, but its deeper cultural meaning has been lost in translation. Gaming ...

Hello Kitty: mouthless, voiceless. Shutterstock. As kawaii suggests, cute culture first originated in Japan, emerging out of the student protests of the late-1960s.Rebelling against authority ...

Cute began being marketed to American adults in the 1950s, notes Isabelle Galleymore, a poet and consultant for the exhibition. American women, then newly equipped with jobs and disposable income ...