Many visitors at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, love taking photos with cute and interesting mascot characters from different ...

TOKYO — Hello Kitty — a girl and not a cat, as many people learned last week — might be the queen of Japan’s cute characters ... of Funabashi and the Japanese word for pear, is an ...

Lately, for many in Hong Kong, this comes in the form of a cute character called Chiikawa. A Japanese artist named Nagano created this character. It went viral as a web comic in 2017. In 2022 ...

Is it the cute electric mouse Pokemon Pikachu? Or perhaps the well-loved Sanrio character Hello Kitty? Well, Japanese site Goo Ranking recently asked netizens what they thought were Japan’s most ...