Born in 1974 amid Japan’s efforts to recover from the devastation of World War II, Hello Kitty would become an unlikely agent of national reinvention. As the country confronted its imperialist ...

And that's just in Japan, her literal birthplace but not the one listed in her official biography. Confused? Welcome to the party. If there's one thing about Hello Kitty, it's that she's proven ...

which owns licensing rights of Hello Kitty, operates the theme park Harmonyland in the southwest Japan prefecture. The prefectural government hopes that the global popularity of Hello Kitty will ...