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Looking towards A Bathing Ape's resident mascot for assistance, Sanrio brings it posse of characters, including Hello Kitty, to A Bathing Ape for a short term pop-up store.

In Japan, where there are more cute characters than one can shake a club let alone a stick at, Hackman, it has to be said, is hard to see as the new Hello Kitty .

The one-of-a-kind "Super Hello Kitty Jewel Doll" was created by a Tokyo jeweler in collaboration with Enlightened Swarovski Elements, and features 2,345 genuine gemstones - white topaz, pink sapphires, citrine, and black spinel - plus a one-carat diamond, all precision-cut by Swarovski and set in Platinum 900.

Even in the midst of Japan's deepest economic recession since World War II, the country's love hotel industry is thriving.

Six photographers: Birgit Freybe Bateman, Janet Dwyer, Steven Friedman, Eric Onasick, Osman Phillips and Gillean Proctor wowed a packed crowd abuzz in discussion about six unique ways of seeing at the launch of Photo LumiA re on Friday evening at ArtSpring.

A new exhibition, Kokeshi: From Folk Toy to Art Toy, organized by the Los Angeles Toy, Doll & Amusements Museum in collaboration with the Japanese American National Museum , will bring together the traditional Japanese doll with hundreds of examples of contemporary and custom kokeshi created by American and international artists beginning on July ...

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Kei Aran, center, performs during the Takarazuka theater's "The Rose of Versailles" final rehearsal in Tokyo in Februrary 2006 TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA / AFP / Getty Images Forty-four young women in wide hakama pants, fans tucked diagonally into waistbands, stand on stage at the Takarazuka Grand Theater, a 30-minute train ride west of Osaka.

Australia has Bunnings and the U.S. has Lowe's, do-it-yourself super stores that sell anything you could ever need for remodeling your house.

The image of Japan as being inhospitable to imports is old, enduring, and not entirely unjustified.

It's back! Everyone's favorite pan-Asian cinematic WTF smorgasbord returns for another face-stuffing binge of robot penises, severed fingers, child sex slaves, introverted sci-fi, Malaysian meta-movies, gay pastries, Catholic panty photographers, and Kim Jong-il doppelgngers.

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Steffen Patenge sits on a chair beside his Doberman during the International Dog Show in Erfurt, Germany.

Hello Kitty, the Japanese-made global icon of cuteness, will mark her 35th birthday this year by going back to her British roots with a new tartan collection, her makers said Wednesday.

The so-called "critter wines" phenomenon is officially pushing the envelope. Hello Kitty , the iconic little cutie heretofore confined to children's bedrooms and young women's coin purses and backpacks is now gracing four different Italian wine labels made by Tenimenti Castelrotto in the Lombardy region.

With a stem of two kanji meaning, "can love", "kawaii" is an adjective in Japanese meaning "cute, pretty, lovely, charming, dear, and darling". A Although psychologists long ago determined some of the prerequisites for "kawaii", the Japanese have turned it into an art form, and furthermore, an industry - millions of dollars are spent on things that ...

"Voyage to the world of illustration": Do you remember the last storybook you read? The exhibition running at Hangaram Art Museum at the Seoul Arts Center in Seocho-dong invites you to the world of childish innocence.

James "Jimmy Da Geek" Bender has a noteworthy spot in local music history as one of the founding members of the 3 Local Boyz with Grant "Lanai Boy" Tabura and Alan "Da Cruzah" Oda.

To get a taste of the west you sometimes had to travel east in Normalisation-era Czechoslovakia.

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