Hello Kitty News

Event: '"Misha X Hello Kitty" Limited Edition Box Set Signing @ Japan L.A.. L.A.' The Misha x Hello Kitty Box Set of Limited Edition Prints are arriving this Saturday at JapanLA! We are having a special release party with Misha! Misha will be at JapanLA, THIS SATURDAY, Dec 5th, and she will be signing the tops of the boxes for you.

NOVEMBER 30: A nail artist shows her 'Hello Kitty' nails during the Tokyo Nail Expo 2009 at Tokyo Big Sight on November 30, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan.

The above photo of Hello Kitty Gumball nails at the Tokyo Nail Expo 2009 still proves one thing: People in Japan still have a lot of trouble wiping themselves.

The designer Victoria Casal talks about her style, her inspiration and growing up with Hello Kitty.

In a bold and violent juxtaposition of movement, text, animation and video of manga drawing, Wade takes a playful and cynical look at consumerism and Japanese kawaii culture- from the infantile fluff of Hello Kitty to teenage doe-eyed love portrayed in anime- exploring its ubiquitous influence on the world today.

Mimoco in conjunction with Sanrio has just announced the Hello Kitty Teddy Bear Mimobot, the fifth and final edition in their Hello Kitty collection .

It was back in the summer of 2008 that we told you about Tom Sachs 's delightful - if deliberately rough-hewn - sculptures of Hello Kitty and friends that until this morning had upped the whimsy factor at Gordon Bunshaft -designed Lever House in Manhattan.

My son's obsessed with Bakugan action figures, and now it seems his interest has broadened to all things related to Japan.

Thirty-five years ago, Hello Kitty dropped an atomic cute bomb on the world and the universe was forever changed.

Is President Obama "advertising weakness" in Asia? Conservative critics, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, have accused Obama of practicing a destructive " diplomacy of deference " in which American supremacy overseas is weakened by inept public diplomacy.

Bacteria extracted from the feces of giant pandas can be used to reduce food waste to less than 10 percent of its original mass.

The wildly successful Hello Kitty 35th anniversary exhibit "Three Apples" came to a close this weekend beginning with Hello Kitty's Bats and Cats Masquerade.

The singer drops the sugar-coated simpering and shoots from the lip about the music industry and her new business model to save it - which could make her the world's richest recording artist "Would you like a drink? I'd get you one myself but it's a little hard for me to get up right now." Mariah Carey isn't kidding.

When you want to gift your room mate and your favourite soft toy with the most expensive dog house the first is invariably one that was produced by Sanrio the Japanese company with a real innovative outlook.

Last week onA November 1, 2009, the beloved cat turned the big 3-5A . To celebrate the Japanese import, Royal/T in L.A.'s Culver City, is hosting a free Hello Kitty event entitled Three Apples a 'a nod to H.K.a TMs weight, as listed on her official bioa 'brings together over 30 artists inspired by the flirtatious feline.

In Hello Kitty Party, players help Hello Kitty and friends plan and throw a super fun party.

MIAMI - Lina Garcia remembers her first Hello Kitty purchases at age 15: a wallet, a trash can and an alarm clock, all with the image of the sweet-faced feline, three whiskers sprouting from each round cheek and a bow over her left ear.

JOHOR BARU: Popular kiddie characters Barney, Thomas and Friends, Bob the Builder and Hello Kitty will be among the attractions at the RM350 million, four-storey indoor theme park slated to be opened to the public at the end of 2012.

Toyota - like so many automakers before it - has returned to the "pink" well to lure female buyers with the rollout of its Hard Kandy Yaris .

This past Sunday was Hello Kittya s official birthday. To celebrate, Sanrio through a massive Birthday party as part of the month long Three Apples exhibition at Royal/T in Culver City.