“Just after 9/11, the world was changing,” he told CNN ... adorned with the character’s expressionless face. “My mother gave ...

She wears a big red bow on her cat-shaped head, her face has ... not accept that Hello Kitty isn’t a feline, even going so far as to call it “blasphemy.” “You can’t change our minds ...

but some women see an empowering symbol in her mouthless face. “Shrewd” is how Mika Nishimura, a design professor at Tokyo’s Meisei University, describes the way Hello Kitty conquered the ...