Dr Christine Yano is a professor of anthropology at the University of Hawaii. She says Hello Kitty emerged amid the rise of a distinctly Japanese cultural phenomenon, what's called Kawaii or cute ...

Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty,” premiered at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. Yano, an ...

Hello Kitty, the cute, enigmatic character that adorns ... Yano of the University of Hawaii told AFP. In fact, "given the ...