Japan’s long-standing culture of cute, known as Kawaii, is toning down its froth. The style was once entirely focused on girlish femininity: encouraging women to exude a childlike sweetness ...

Konbini convenience stores,are a staple of Japanese life. At Kawaii Konbini, a Longmont couple shares their love for Japan.

Editor’s note: This series showcases what we are calling “kawaii” (cute) items made locally in the iconic Japanese city.

That's cute: The interior of 6%DOKIDOKI, Sebastian Masuda's kawaii fashion store in Harajuku. | SAMUEL THOMAS By Samuel Thomas Special To The Japan Times SHARE/SAVE Jul 2, 2013 ...

Kawaii: Going crazy for cute the Japanese way Kawaii, or a love of the adorable, is huge in Japan – and it’s big here too. Bless, says Will Coldwell ...

Editor’s note: This series showcases what we are calling “kawaii” (cute) items made locally in the iconic Japanese city. * * * Local tea shop Kyoto Goencha began exploring new ways to ...

In Brief Pink globalisation, the spread of cute goods from Japan to other parts of the industrial world, has been a stronghold of consumption in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, particularly ...

"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 ...

While Japanese cool hunters might lament the lack of pop cultural exports in recent years — all the more conspicuous when compared to K-Pop's successful forays westward — kawaii (cute) culture ...