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 ...

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

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 ...