Matthew Myers is the force behind the LeetStreet Boys, an otaku band focusing on the Japan-loving pop culture derived from anime. I met Matt by chance at ConnectiCon a few years ago while picking up ...

J-Pop has been popular in Asia for years. But a new star, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu has found global fame with her reinvention of ‘kawaii’ culture, Mariko Oi reports. A room full of children's toys, a dancing ...

Red Bull Music Academy’s H∆SHTAG$ series delves into the kittens and candy-fuelled world of Kawaii. An integral part of Japanese culture since at least the 1970s, this unique amalgam of the cute, the ...

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 ...

Japanese quartet CHAI are back with another single from their forthcoming self-titled album, which is out September 22 via Sub Pop. “NEO KAWAII, K?” follows “We The Female!” and “PARA PARA” from ...

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 ...

"Gross" characters are proliferating in a country known for kawaii, and now even local governments' mascots are trying to out-weird one another. Long considered the global capital of cute, Japan is ...