On social media feeds all over the world, puppies experience hiccups for the first time, hamsters eat tiny tacos and cats befriend monkeys. And they do it a lot. Kawaii is inescapable in Japan, where ...

Alongside "photobomb", one of the new words added to the Collins English dictionary this week was "kawaii". Yet unlike photobomb, selfie or onesie, you're unlikely to know what kawaii means unless you ...

Misa Kimura was still a student from Tatebayashi, Gunma Prefecture, when she visited Tokyo’s Harajuku neighborhood for the first time. It felt like stepping into a dream. “Every kind of clothing or ...

Inside the DiverCity Tokyo Plaza in the Odaiba district is a bizarre interactive museum, where visitors can take photos with kawaii unko, or cute poop. Don’t worry, there is no actual excrement the ...