It gives the whole thing a certain poignancy and power.Weak and pedantic, starting by the soundtrack that immediately “imposes” drama, making impossible an impartial view. It's about reconnecting her to this community. This is why the exhibition is being held at the Japanese American National Museum. 'It's something they saw as an identity marker. 'In talking to Japanese Americans who grew up in the 1970s, they say, 'That figure means so much to us because she was ours,'' she told the Times. Wikipedia, for what it's worth, refers to Kitty as a Japanese bobtail cat, though her species isn't made clear on, where a page devoted to the character's 40th anniversary says she was created 'to inspire happiness, friendship, and sharing across the world.'īut regardless of whether she's a girl or a cat, she remains vitally important to the Japanese identity, Yano said. So the biography was created exactly for the tastes of that time.' It represented the quintessential idealized childhood, almost like a white picket fence. 'Hello Kitty emerged in the 1970s, when the Japanese and Japanese women were into Britain,' Yano told the Times. She has a twin sister, and is a perpetual third-grader.Some other facts about Hello Kitty, according to Yano: 'That's one correction Sanrio (the company that owns the character) made for my script for the show.' 'I was corrected - very firmly,' Yano told the Times.

When she was preparing written texts for the museum's exhibit, she made the mistake of referring to Hello Kitty as, well, a cat.

It's not a matter of opinion, either, Yano said. Yano, an anthropologist with the University of Hawaii who is curator of a Hello Kitty retrospective at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles in October, told the newspaper. 'She's never depicted on all fours,' Christine R.

She is, rather, a little girl, the Los Angeles Times reports. Hello Kitty - despite having a name that's 50 percent devoted to the term that refers to a young cat - is no feline. Hello Kitty has long been a staple of Japanese pop culture, but for decades, one expert says, the world has been under a false impression. For 40 years, her face has adorned backpacks and lunch boxes, jewelry and theme restaurants, TV shows and even laptops.

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