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By 2014, when Hello Kitty was 40 years old, it was worth about $7 billion a year, all without any advertising.

Christine R. You read that right. She is depicted as an anthropomorphic white Japanese Bobtail with a red bow.[4] When Yano was preparing her written texts for the exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum, she says she described Hello Kitty as a cat. "I was corrected — very firmly," she says. "That's one correction Sanrio made for my script for the show.

Yano is an anthropologist from the University of Hawaii (and currently a visiting professor at Harvard) who has spent years studying the phenomenon that is Hello Kitty. The character's first appearance (on a purse) was introduced in Japan in 1975, and brought to the United States in 1976.[5][6] The character is a staple of the kawaii segment of Japanese popular culture.

[7] By 2010, Sanrio had groomed Hello Kitty into a global marketing phenomenon worth $5 billion a year.[8] By 2014, when Hello Kitty was 40 years old, it was worth about $7 billion a year, all without any advertising.[9]

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I was corrected — very firmly," she says.

Hello Kitty is not a cat. What happens when you say Hello Kitty is not a cat? Kitty chaos She is depicted as an anthropomorphic white Japanese Bobtail with a red bow.[4] You read that right. Carolina A. The character's first appearance (on a purse) was introduced in Japan in 1975, and brought to the United States in 1976.

[5][6] The character is a staple of the kawaii segment of Japanese popular culture.[7] By 2010, Sanrio had groomed Hello Kitty into a global marketing phenomenon worth $5 billion a year.[8] By 2014, when Hello Kitty was 40 years old, it was worth about $7 billion a year, all without any advertising.

[9] When Yano was preparing her written texts for the exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum, she says she described Hello Kitty as a cat. "I was corrected — very firmly," she says. "That's one correction Sanrio made for my script for the show. Miranda Originally aimed at pre-adolescent females, Hello Kitty's market has broadened to include adult consumers.

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In talking to Japanese Americans who grew up in the 1970s, they say, 'That figure means so much to us because she was ours.' It's something they saw as an identity marker.

Hello Kitty is not a cat. Hello Kitty has special significance to Asian Americans. Miranda She's a cartoon character.

Yes, she's worldwide.     What happens when you say Hello Kitty is not a cat? Kitty chaos But Hello Kitty has had special resonance with Asians who grew up in the United States. She is a little girl.

See all related She is a friend. "When Hello Kitty arrived in the U.S. in the mid-1970s, it was a commodity mainly in Asian enclaves: Chinatowns, Japantowns, etc.," explains Yano. "In talking to Japanese Americans who grew up in the 1970s, they say, 'That figure means so much to us because she was ours.' It's something they saw as an identity marker. 8

This fall, she is set to take L.A. by storm, with a full-blown retrospective of Kitty art, merch and fashion at the Japanese American National Museum, which opens in mid-October. This is why the exhibition is being held at the Japanese American National Museum. But she is not a cat.

Two weeks later, the first ever Hello Kitty Con, will be held at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

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She is a little girl.

She is a little girl. They loved the idea of Britain. Since debuting in 1974, Hello Kitty has become a global phenomenon. (Denis Poroy / Invision / Associated Press) It represented the quintessential idealized childhood, almost like a white picket fence. She is a friend. Christine R. But she is not a cat.

So the biography was created exactly for the tastes of that time." Yano is an anthropologist from the University of Hawaii (and currently a visiting professor at Harvard) who has spent years studying the phenomenon that is Hello Kitty. She's never depicted on all fours. Hello Kitty has special significance to Asian Americans. She is also the author of the book "Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific," published by Duke University Press last year.

She walks and sits like a two-legged creature. Yes, she's worldwide. She says that Kitty's unreadable features (she usually doesn't have a mouth), along with clever merchandising, has helped cultivate the character's following.

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Kitty is actually named Kitty White and she has a full back story.

Hello Kitty is British. She is a little girl. Yano is an anthropologist from the University of Hawaii (and currently a visiting professor at Harvard) who has spent years studying the phenomenon that is Hello Kitty. She is a friend. Kitty is actually named Kitty White and she has a full back story.

She is also the author of the book "Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific," published by Duke University Press last year. But she is not a cat. She is a Scorpio. She says that Kitty's unreadable features (she usually doesn't have a mouth), along with clever merchandising, has helped cultivate the character's following.

She's never depicted on all fours. She loves apple pie. "Hello Kitty works and is successful partly because of the blankness of her design," Yano says. "People see the possibility of a range of expressions. And she is the daughter of George and Mary White. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature.

You can give her a guitar, you can put her on stage, you can portray her as is.