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 ...

You can trace the word “kawaii” all the way back to the start of the 11th century, when an early form of it, “kawayushi,” which at the time translated more to “having pitiable qualities,” appeared in ...

There’s something that I — as a partnered person, probably annoyingly — like to recommend to friends looking for cute first date ideas. And that is this: Choose an activity you’ve been wanting to do ...

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: ...

From Hello Kitty to Pikachu, the country changed what the world considers adorable. But do these characters represent joy — or rage? By Ligaya Mishan Artwork by Hiroshi YoshiiKimiaki Yaegashi and ...

Even if you were staring into a crystal ball, nobody could have foreseen one of modern metal’s wildest innovations taking the form of three teenage girls performing synchronised dance moves. Decked ...

“Tell me what you wanna do,” Cookiee Kawaii sings, dreamily, as if she’s crooning long distance through a rotary phone. “I know you see I’m feelin’ you.” It could be the start of slow-burning love ...