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 ...

“I don’t think it’s to appear to be healthy, it’s purely a style statement,” Tokyo-based French fashion designer Julien David said of activewear’s rise in the country. “The biggest shift in Kawaii is ...

One of Nvidia's Chinese board partners, ASL, is bringing the kawaii with its new pink graphics card. It's easy to imagine an entire custom PC built with this vibrant card taking center stage. Better ...

This year has been anything but cute. It’s been occasionally optimistic, but mostly unpredictable, tumultuous, and painful. But cute? Far from it. Enter the timeline cleanse. You may have seen them: ...

Japan is a country obsessed with cuteness, known as "kawaii (可愛い)," where everyone -- even the Tokyo Police -- has a mascot. Now that the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, which will be held in Tokyo, ...

With digital overload and constant stress dominating life, soft colours and whimsical objects work like visual therapy. That’s what Kawaii interiors aims to do. When GS Shruti (@shrustudies), a ...

If you’ve heard anything about Japan, you’ve probably heard about Harajuku, the Tokyo fashion hub for anything cute and zany. Characterized by bright colors and kawaii characters, like singer Kyary ...

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It’s all there in the name: Pink Kawaii Café takes all the pop imagery, pastel colours and cuteness Japan has to offer and blends them into a sugary fairytale vision in café form. Every order gets an ...