We were of course in Japan, but still, what on earth was going on? As the economy progressed through the 1970s and 1980s, so did consumer subcultures – and cute as a style began to be expressed ...

From an early age, Japanese kids ... lunches are not as cute as their neighbors.' " These school lunches are locally grown and usually made from scratch. They're so yummy that, as The Washington ...

She says that, for Japanese consumers, what's cute "is more relational -- it describes more of a relationship with a person or an object" than it does specific aesthetic values. "So, almost ...

“Kawaii,” the closest Japanese equivalent to the contemporary English “cute,” goes further. Here the cute isn’t so much unthreatening as threatened. According to the Japanese cultural ...

The highly anticipated Cute Robot Japanese Kitchen quietly opened its ... X The restaurant is still in its soft opening stage, so grace from customers is appreciated as the staff works out its ...

I had no idea there was anything else that was considered cute—because I was always in Japan only. So the first time I went to college and saw that people overseas don’t even care about things ...