Bombshell news from today's LA Times! Hello Kitty—a brand beloved by innocent children and sarcastic teenagers—is not actually a cat. This from Christine R. Yano, anthropologist and Hello Kitty scholar. "Hello Kitty is not a
The Los Angeles Times spoke with Christine R. Yano, an anthropologist from the University of Hawaii who has spent years studying the phenomenon that is Hello Kitty. While Yano was preparing written texts for Hello Kitty's
As the author of the 2013 book "Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific," Yano was especially suited to research the pop culture character for the exhibit. And she uncovered interesting facts about Hello Kitty that fans might not
Dear Sanrio,. If you name something "Hello Kitty," and proceed to give it cat ears and cat whisker-looking things, then don't be surprised if people think you have made a cat. I was surprised when I read this story in the LAist: Christine Yano, an
Tokyo (AFP) – Hello Kitty is not a cat, the company behind Japan's global icon of cute insisted Thursday, despite an uproar from Internet users who spluttered: “But she's got whiskers!” The moon-faced creation that adorns