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All images courtesy of Two Kids and a Coupon Kawaii and cats go hand in hand! This cute illustration style is perfect for cat ...

(By the time Westerners adopted the cute life, Japan had a wealth of kawaii animal characters to offer.) “UwU” — the emoticon pronounced “oo-woo,” representing a smitten face that would ...

A timeline cleanse is meant to interrupt that cycle with a reprieve from the chaos. “I think kawaii, or cute feelings, reminds us of human connection that we sometimes forget,” says Hiroshi ...

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

But what does “kawaii” actually mean? In Japanese, the word literally means “acceptable for affection” or “possible to love” and has been translated as meaning “cute,” “adorable, ...

Next, the exhibition moves to the cultural history of cute around the world. Per the Observer, much of our “sparkly, rainbow vocabulary of cuteness” comes from the aesthetic called kawaii ...

Cute—"Kawaii" in local parlance—wears many guises in Japan. There's old-school kawaii, embodied by the helpless, mouthless gaze of Hello Kitty. There's the newer guy-cute, manifest by masses ...

As the economy progressed through the 1970s and 1980s, so did consumer subcultures – and cute as a style began ... saw the refreshing of the ultimate kawaii brand, Hello Kitty, expanded to ...

Kawaii is inescapable in Japan ... As of the time of writing, 676 million posts are tagged #cute on Instagram. The 66 million or so TikTok videos with the same hashtag have over 625 billion ...