Red Bull Music Academy’s H∆SHTAG$ series delves into the kittens and candy-fuelled world of Kawaii. An integral part of Japanese culture since at least the 1970s, this unique amalgam of the cute, the ...

Kawaii. You hear it in anime, you hear it on TV shows, and you hear it on the streets of Japan, where the word is spoken by young and old alike. With people around the world growing up on Japanese ...

J-Pop has been popular in Asia for years. But a new star, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu has found global fame with her reinvention of ‘kawaii’ culture, Mariko Oi reports. A room full of children's toys, a dancing ...

This year has been anything but cute. It’s been occasionally optimistic, but mostly unpredictable, tumultuous, and painful. But cute? Far from it. Enter the timeline cleanse. You may have seen them: ...

"Gross" characters are proliferating in a country known for kawaii, and now even local governments' mascots are trying to out-weird one another. Long considered the global capital of cute, Japan is ...

A Japanese metal band formed when its members were still children is heading out on a headlining U.S. tour with a stop in Connecticut. Babymetal will headline the Mohegan Sun Arena on June 27. The all ...

Hui-Ying Kerr received funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) from 2010 - 2013 as part of her PhD research on Japan in the 1980s. This is a true story. One Saturday night, I ...

“Tell me what you wanna do,” Cookiee Kawaii sings, dreamily, as if she’s crooning long distance through a rotary phone. “I know you see I’m feelin’ you.” It could be the start of slow-burning love ...

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 of young ...