ABC News’ Juju Chang alongside Broadway’s Don Darryl dives into the culture of Japan with a rare glimpse inside the world-renowned Kabuki theater, Kabukiza.

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 ...

The Japanese concept of ‘kawaii,’ meaning ‘cute,’ has transcended ... liquid-filled minis, and squishy slime, enhancing their appeal through sensory engagement. “The appeal of kawaii ...

Providing an in-depth overview of all things kawaii (cute), this book traces the cute aesthetic from its inception in the 1970s as a schoolgirl trend to its position as a leading cultural norm ...

And how did the next “it” thing come about? We started hearing about squishies in the spring. The first ones were called Kawaii Squishies, and we just thought they were super cute. As the kids ...

And the tiger stripes (torajima in Japanese ... recognized in the West. “Cute” in English is an innocuous word for an innocuous state, as genial and squishy as what it describes.

"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 ...

And they do it a lot. Kawaii is inescapable in Japan, where I have lived since the 1990s, so the global rise of adorable content online has not surprised me. As of the time of writing, 676 million ...

Yet unlike photobomb, selfie or onesie, you're unlikely to know what kawaii means unless you know a lot about Japan or are under the age of 25. Officially kawaii is defined as a "Japanese artistic ...