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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

A fluffy, doe-eyed kitten adorned with a rainbow and a unicorn horn may, at first glance, stir up images of childishness or innocence. However, this cute creature is more powerful than it may first ...

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 ...