Katy Kelly of Corvallis makes a purchase from sarangHEY! sales associate Morgan Breeden at the Corvallis anime and kawaii shop's soft opening on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022.

BUSAN -- Japanese leading contemporary artist Takashi Murakami showed up in South Korea’s southern port city of Busan for his first exhibition in the country in 10 years. Inspired by Japan’s ...

Kawaii refers to the Japanese culture of cuteness. The shop is stocked with anime figurines, manga—especially niche and LGBTQ manga — candy, stationery, plushies, Japanese and Korean skincare ...

While Murakami's art continued to explore the historical atom-bomb trauma through the sickeningly kawaii aesthetics ― including a playful rendering of a mushroom cloud in "Vapor Trail" and "Tan ...