These digital creations show a detailed 3D Chibi figure inside a transparent capsule ... perfectly into the world of "kawaii", a Japanese word that means cute or adorable. But kawaii isn ...

(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 ...

“Cute” is not a perfect translation of kawaii but it gives some idea of ... In May, Masuda placed a 9ft, transparent Hello Kitty “time capsule” outside the Japan Society in Manhattan.

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, ...

“Women thus embrace the harmlessness and innocence of shōjo by enthusiastically consuming cute merchandise, while delaying their roles as wives and mothers.” Kawaii culture is classified by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...