In 1974, a 24-year-old Japanese illustrator called Yuko Shimizu put pen to paper to draw the famous cartoon ... along with six other cute characters. However, the Hello Kitty design far outsold ...

TOKYO--Hello Kitty turns ... is Japanese for “cute” but also connotes a lovable or adorable essence. Sanrio recruited Shimizu and other illustrators to create “kawaii” characters at ...

Fifty years ago in March 2025, the Japanese company Sanrio introduced Hello Kitty to the world. Designed by Yuko Shimizu, the familiar anthropomorphised cat character has transcended ... it’s not the ...

As dogs are so popular, there are naturally lots of dog Sanrio characters, and some of them are the company’s most popular ...