More than just cute, kawaii is a lifestyle. Embrace it at these 11 adorable spots in L.A. ... along with unique items like a deadstock Hello Kitty CD case for your car’s sun visor.

In Western culture, we’ve come to think of kawaii as a synonym for cute. In Japan, where the kawaii aesthetic has been its own pop culture phenomenon for decades, the word is a bit more complex.

The town of Kotoura in Tottori Prefecture, however, has an über cute design, which features a portly cow, a pair of frolicking flying fish, and one of the town’s mascot characters holding the produce ...

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