Kitty’s popularity is emblematic of the global craze for cute things. In Japan the phenomenon ... Kitty is supposedly not a cat, but a little girl who lives in the suburbs of London with ...
who has written a non-fiction book about the popular cat character. Despite, or perhaps because of this, Kitty is the queen of this cute, sometimes kitschy Japanese cultural phenomenon.
The Hello Kitty Cafe in downtown Vancouver opens at noon, but it is common to see a small line of people waiting outside well before then. Since the cafe launched in May, a steady stream of fans ...
Later, she was named “Kitty”, after a cat of the same name owned by Alice ... Over time, each generation’s collective memory of the cute Japanese knick-knacks that they played with as ...