May 26, 2022
Kitty Chan, Asia's favourite toy character, is being downloaded everyday by hundreds of thousands of Japanese fans onto their mobile phones, as seen on a mobile phone in Tokyo, to the glee of toy maker Bandai Co and mobile phone operator NTT Docomo. The Hello Kitty Website, operated by Bandai, is one of the most popular Web sites on NTT Docomo's hugely successful i-mode mobile Internet service, rapidly growing into Japan's principal platform for e-commerce. Picture taken 28Feb00.