However, if one character can be considered the face of Sanrio, it has to be be Hello Kitty. The adorable little cat has been ...

Hello Kitty is one such example. Despite being fifty years old, the character's popularity shows no signs of reducing any ...

Yuko Shimizu, the Sanrio employee who created Hello Kitty, told BBC that her design for the character ... Sanrio told the BBC that Hello Kitty’s real name is Kitty White, and she was born ...

It’s 50 years since the creation of one of the world’s most recognisable characters, Hello Kitty. In 1974, a 24-year-old ...

"Shrewd" is how Mika Nishimura, a design professor at Tokyo's Meisei ... the Japanese entertainment company that holds the rights to Hello Kitty's name and image, kicked off the festivities ...

The design made its debut on a coin purse the next year and became an instant hit in Japan. As Hello Kitty’s commercial success expanded beyond Asia, so did her personal profile. By the late 1970s, ...

Credit: Getty Images) Her design – a white cat with a red ... According to the company, Hello Kitty’s real name is Kitty White and she was born in England. She isn’t a cat.

“Shrewd” is how Mika Nishimura, a design professor at Tokyo’s Meisei ... the Japanese entertainment company that holds the rights to Hello Kitty’s name and image, kicked off the ...

“Shrewd” is how Mika Nishimura, a design professor at Tokyo’s Meisei ... the Japanese entertainment company that holds the rights to Hello Kitty’s name and image, kicked off the ...