Tag: Kawaii

Confronting Coming of Age and War in Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
Author: Xinnia Ejaz, Lahore School of Economics, Pakistan Email: xinnia.ejaz@yahoo.com Published: October 28, 2022 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.11.1.01 Citation: Ejaz, X. (2022). Confronting Coming of Age and War in Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle (2004). IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.11.1.01 Abstract This research paper evaluates how Hayao Miyazaki’s film Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) does …

Beyond Cuteness: An Emerging Field of the Psychology of “Kawaii”
“Kawaii” is often translated as “cute” in English, but the nuances and connotations of the two words seem to be different. In this presentation, Professor Hiroshi Nittono of Osaka University discusses which aspects of kawaii are unique to Japanese culture and which aspects seem to be universal to all humans.