For hours of cute coloring fun, print these free kawaii cat coloring pages for kids and adults. Which one is your favorite?

A DIY art space, a bounce house wonderland and a cat cafe are just a few of the places where you can get your kawaii fix around town.

“I think kawaii, or cute feelings, reminds us of human connection that we sometimes forget,” says Hiroshi Nittono, director of the Cognitive Psychophysiology Laboratory at Osaka University.

The Japanese word “kawaii” made it to the English vernacular, but its deeper cultural meaning has been lost in translation.

She’s the iconic Japanese cartoon character that launched not only a multimillion-dollar empire but the global phenomenon of ‘Kawaii’ culture. CNN’s Hanako Montgomery meets the designer ...

The ‘kawaii’ effect Integral to the global phenomena of cute, the exhibition asserts, is “kawaii,” a Japanese word which literally translates as “cuteness.” ...

Kawaii: Going crazy for cute the Japanese way Kawaii, or a love of the adorable, is huge in Japan – and it’s big here too. Bless, says Will Coldwell ...

Fans of all things kawaii are in for a treat as Sanrio and CROCS unveil a collaboration that’s bursting with charm, nostalgia, and style ...

Cute—"Kawaii" in local parlance—wears many guises in Japan. There's old-school kawaii, embodied by the helpless, mouthless gaze of Hello Kitty. There's the newer guy-cute, manifest by masses ...

And it means business. So, what is kawaii and why here and why now? As the Japanese word for cute, kawaii has connotations of shyness, embarrassment, vulnerability, darlingness and lovability.

The only difference is that kawaii is more over the top cute, so you might wear all the contents of Claire's Accessories in one go. "In Harajuku in Japan [a district known for its street fashion ...