ViVi, LiLi, GiGi, and ZuZu are ready to join the plush squad. This wide-eyed lineup of baby doll plushies is as adorable as ...

Plus, eateries selling sugary and kawaii foods, like a rainbow cotton candy bigger than your head at Totti Candy Factory and over 100 kinds of crepes at Santa Monica. teamLab Planets TOKYO ...

Doban-kun, which means "flat clay man" in Japanese, is 2.3 inches (5.8 centimeters) tall and 1.5 inches (3.7 cm) wide and weighs about 1.7 ounces (48.4 grams). It was found near the Ōyu Stone ...

Cute moments and chibi characters can appear in any series, but their natural home is kawaii anime, where the dominant adjectives are "soft" and "huggable" and the most common expression is "awww!" ...

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 ...

Kawaii is inescapable in Japan, where I have lived since the 1990s, so the global rise of adorable content online has not surprised me. As of the time of writing, 676 million posts are tagged # ...

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