“Just after 9/11, the world was changing,” he told CNN. “And I think that the Japanese ‘kawaii’ culture was an alternative ...

Born from the trauma of World War II, this bow-wearing cartoon icon became a powerful tool for diplomacy, reinvention, and cultural soft power. Dressed in a kimono, Hello Kitty performs a ...

Hello Kitty, the global marketing phenomenon that features a fictional Japanese bobtail cat with a red bow and no mouth, is about to take on a new role ... as a talking android. Sanrio Co., which ...

Hello Kitty & Friends are stopping by Earth for a ... a Demon Slayer chibi set and Naruto Shippuden figures from the Fourth Shinobi World War. Source: Press release ...

Total sales for open-world adventure game Hello Kitty Island Adventure have surpassed 500,000 units just 30 days after its January 30 release for Switch and PC via Steam, developer Sunblink announced.

I think the appeal for me (now) is the fact that even if you have all the money in the world, you’d never be able to go to just one place and buy the whole Hello Kitty collection. You have to go ...

It’s 50 years since the creation of one of the world’s most recognisable characters, Hello Kitty. In 1974, a 24-year-old Japanese illustrator called Yuko Shimizu put pen to paper to draw the ...