If you want to really show off your maximalist kawaii vibe, one way to do it is with a “decoden” DIY phone case. Set in the Honda Plaza strip mall in Little Tokyo, Pinku D.I.Y. Design Studio ...

Cute’s power to give the workaday some escapist glitz can also be seen on an individual level every day via phone filters that turn us into squishy avatars, glossing over our adult features ...

Watch the teaser video after the break. Skip along then come back to me. Sharp's RoboHon is so damn adorable, I can't look away from this kawaii singularity. This robot smartphone may be cute, but ...

Begging for an ass kicking from your pals? Grab the Doraephone. Based on the GIGABYTE gx-5 (not to mention the manga comic about a robotic blue cat from ...

The Birth of Cute "Kawaii ('cute' in Japanese) resonates through generations, and it's the reason for Hello Kitty's success," says Ken Belson, a co-author, with Brian Bremner, of "Hello Kitty: The ...

In Western culture, we’ve come to think of kawaii as a synonym for cute. In Japan, where the kawaii aesthetic has been its own pop culture phenomenon for decades, the word is a bit more complex.

Hello Kitty: mouthless, voiceless. Shutterstock. As kawaii suggests, cute culture first originated in Japan, emerging out of the student protests of the late-1960s.Rebelling against authority ...

Cute’s power to give the workaday some escapist glitz can also be seen on an individual level every day via phone filters that turn us into squishy avatars, glossing over our adult features ...