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 men who have taken to shaving off their body hair ...

Cats, naturally, feature prominently in “Cute,” from the famed and colorful 19th-century drawings of artist Louis ... the exhibition asserts, is “kawaii,” a Japanese word which literally ...

(in Japanese art and culture) the quality of being lovable or cute “If you translate kawaii into English, it’s ‘cute,’ but kawaii is much more emotional than cute,” Tokyo fashion mogul ...

Providing an in-depth overview of all things kawaii (cute), this book traces the cute aesthetic from its inception in the 1970s as a schoolgirl trend to its position as a leading cultural norm ...