Kawaii. You hear it in anime, you hear it on TV shows, and you hear it on the streets of Japan, where the word is spoken by young and old alike. With people around the world growing up on Japanese ...

KimoKawaii is Conroe’s only anime convention — and it’s anything but ordinary. Blending “creepy” and “cute,” the annual event celebrates anime, cosplay, and Japanese pop culture with a fashion show, ...

Hui-Ying Kerr received funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) from 2010 - 2013 as part of her PhD research on Japan in the 1980s. This is a true story. One Saturday night, I ...

Mashing up two prominent brands, a new official Evangelion and Sanrio collaboration shows off new artwork for the best of mecha meets kawaii.

KOCHI: Once every month, the unassuming Anton Hotel at Kacheripady, Kochi, becomes a beehive of activity as members of the Kochi Anime Club, a collective of anime and manga enthusiasts, pour in for ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In the late 1970s, British inventor James Dyson painstakingly refined his design for a new, improved vacuum cleaner.

Named for the Japanese term for the sound of an excited heart beating, Doki Doki Kawaii Shop, in all its pastel glory, sits on Lakewood’s Madison Avenue. Kawaii refers to the Japanese culture of ...