If this sounds hard to believe, you can experience the kawaii poop culture at the Unko Museum Okinawa, which opened in ...

Kawaii, often associated with fashions and character goods, is a representative aspect of Japan’s pop culture in the spotlight now. But kawaii is a difficult concept to convey, and the author has ...

Kawaii Kingdom has opened a pop-up shop at Market City Shopping Center, offering shoppers a wide range of Japanese-inspired ...

KYOTO—A sign on a train platform directs visitors to “The Future,” a pink-colored venue filled with cuteness that has made history on an abandoned railway line here. The Future Train restaurant, built ...

Kawaii. You hear it in anime, you hear it on TV shows, and you hear it on the streets of Japan, where the word is spoken by young and old alike. With people around the world growing up on Japanese ...

While the concept termed as kawaii is often translated into English as ‘cute’ or ‘pretty’, it has multiple connotations. It is one of the most significant topics of investigation in behavioural ...

On social media feeds all over the world, puppies experience hiccups for the first time, hamsters eat tiny tacos and cats befriend monkeys. And they do it a lot. Kawaii is inescapable in Japan, where ...

Over the course of this pandemic that stretched out far longer than anyone could have imagined, countless establishments have been forced to close as business is seriously impacted by stay home orders ...

Kawaii is anime's cutest side: from the hamster-sized sweat droplets when someone is stressed, to the iridescent blushing when someone is embarrassed. Its ultimate embodiment is the chibi, a style ...

In 2015, The Kawaii Monster Cafe opened its funky, rainbow-colored doors in none other than Tokyo’s fashion capital of cuteness, Harajuku. The adorably monstrous theme restaurant was produced by ...

This year has been anything but cute. It’s been occasionally optimistic, but mostly unpredictable, tumultuous, and painful. But cute? Far from it. Enter the timeline cleanse. You may have seen them: ...