We can’t figure it out. We don’t even know if she is a cat,” art historian Joyce S. Cheng, a University of Oregon associate professor, said. “There is an unresolved indeterminacy about her that is so ...

The complexity of “kawaii” may help explain Hello Kitty's ... aesthetic historically associated with Japan. A chameleon-like cat-girl who reflects unabashed kitsch is the cultural ambassador ...

The complexity of “kawaii” may help explain Hello Kitty's ... aesthetic historically associated with Japan. A chameleon-like cat-girl who reflects unabashed kitsch is the cultural ambassador ...

In Japan the phenomenon, known as kawaii, dates back to at least the 17th ... Despite the name, whiskers and pointy ears, Kitty is supposedly not a cat, but a little girl who lives in the suburbs ...