Sanrio and Moonbug -- the owners of Hello Kitty and CoComelon -- team up for a new crossover show starring beloved characters ...

Hello Kitty may be Sanrio's most recognizable character, but she is not the sole face of the kawaii brand and that is ...

Netflix’s upcoming stop-motion series My Melody And Kuromi brings Sanrio’s cutest rivals together for a nostalgic adventure.

Each year millions vote in the popularity contest, with this year’s showdown – between two long-time rivals – fiercer than ...

Chiikawa, a contraction of the Japanese phrase nanka chiisakute kawaii yatsu, which means something like “so small and cute,” refers to the adorable animal characters that appear in a manga ...

Sanrio recruited Shimizu and other illustrators to create "kawaii" characters at a time when cute, girlish styles were popular in Japan. But the word is used often in Japanese society, and not ...

You can trace the word “kawaii” all the way back to the start of the 11th century, when an early form of it, “kawayushi,” which at the time translated more to “having pitiable qualities ...

Sanrio recruited Shimizu and other illustrators to create “kawaii” characters at a time when cute, girlish styles were popular in Japan. But the word is used often in Japanese society, and not ...

Japan Hello Kitty at 50 Yuko Akiyama, one of the directors at Sanrio, speaks to the media during the exhibition "As I change, so does she," marking the 50th anniversary of Hello Kitty at the Tokyo ...