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This fall, she is set to take L.A.

Hello Kitty is not a cat. See all related She is depicted as an anthropomorphic white Japanese Bobtail with a red bow.[4] 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. She's a cartoon character. 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] Two weeks later, the first ever Hello Kitty Con, will be held at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

She is a little girl. Originally aimed at pre-adolescent females, Hello Kitty's market has broadened to include adult consumers.

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This is why the exhibition is being held at the Japanese American National Museum.

So the biography was created exactly for the tastes of that time." Hello Kitty is not a cat. Carolina A. Hello Kitty has special significance to Asian Americans. She's a cartoon character.

Miranda Yes, she's worldwide. She is a little girl.     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 friend. See all related But she is not a cat. "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.

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Two young women in Hello Kitty gear at Comic-Con I could go on.

She lives outside of London. Hello Kitty is not a cat. Two young women in Hello Kitty gear at Comic-Con I could go on. She's a cartoon character. Two young women decked out in Hello Kitty gear wait for their credentials at Comic-Con in San Diego last month.

A lot of people don't know the story and a lot don't care. She is a little girl. Since debuting in 1974, Hello Kitty has become a global phenomenon. (Denis Poroy / Invision / Associated Press) She is a friend. But it's interesting because Hello Kitty emerged in the 1970s, when the Japanese and Japanese women were into Britain.

Christine R. They loved the idea of Britain. But she is not a cat. 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. It represented the quintessential idealized childhood, almost like a white picket fence.

She is also the author of the book "Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific," published by Duke University Press last year.