Daily Lives of High School Boys is a slice-of-life situation ... This series is a different kind of kawaii, but no less cute because of that. This show shoots a machinegun volley of adorable ...

Kawaii aesthetics have long been a staple ... increasingly frustrated by their lack of post-school options, turned to the cute culture as a means of subverting cultural expectations.

(By the time Westerners adopted the cute life, Japan had a wealth of kawaii animal characters to offer.) “UwU” — the emoticon pronounced “oo-woo,” representing a smitten face that would ...

The popular look originated from the fashionable Harajuku district in the early 1980s, but its potential precursor is likely Kawaii fashion. The term, which is Japanese for "cute," stems from a ...

An emerging Japanese school of thought, which revolves around the study of Kawaii or the quality of being cute, has found evidence that staring at cute things can boost mood and ...

A timeline cleanse is meant to interrupt that cycle with a reprieve from the chaos. “I think kawaii, or cute feelings, reminds us of human connection that we sometimes forget,” says Hiroshi ...

Although kawaii food (kawaii is "cute" in Japanese ... who used to visit Disneyland monthly in high school. Kawaii food fans should add Disneyland Tokyo to their bucket lists.

Integral to the global phenomena of cute, the exhibition asserts, is “kawaii,” a Japanese word which literally translates as “cuteness.” According to the exhibition, modern kawaii culture ...

But what does “kawaii” actually mean? In Japanese, the word literally means “acceptable for affection” or “possible to love” and has been translated as meaning “cute,” “adorable, ...