A delightful combo of fun and elegance! On the left, a kawaii-style bunny cookie resting on a juicy strawberry. On the right, ...

Learn how to make these satisfying and super kawaii cookies — from a smiling hot cocoa mug to a cupcake, cookie, cheeseburger ...

Ultra-cute as a lifestyle exploded throughout Japan in the 1950s and ’60s with artist Rune Naito, whose illustrations (and later, netsuke-style ceramics) of adorable girls and big-eyed animals ...

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

As country, hip-hop, rap, and acoustic folk rock collide at Summerfest 2025, one band's music style certainly sticks out: kawaii metal, a genre that blends death growl metal and pop sugar vocals ...

Louis Wain, Ginger Cat, 1931 [Image: courtesy of Bethlem Museum of the Mind/Somerset House] Of course, it would take hundreds of years for the cult of cute to go mainstream. For Catterall, the ...

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 ...

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.

Japanese kawaii culture also went global, with the spread of anime films and manga comic books. After the advent of mass production, cute trinkets and toys became widely available; Sanrio, which ...