Is Hello Kitty Japanese_ Or British_
By Dr. Eleanor Vance | Published on January 01, 0001
Everybody who is really, really into Hello Kitty knows her name is Kitty White. Ditto for this: according to her official Sanrio biography, she was born in
London, making her British by default, no? So what’s the big deal?
https://kotaku.com/can-anyone-replace-hello-kitty-5821481 Yet, pretty much everyone in Japan thinks Kitty-chan is Japanese—with only diehard Hello Kitty nerds all the wiser.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); [[link]] According to an Atlantic Wire piece by Tokyo Vice writer Jake Adelstein, Tatsuya Nakajima, a leader of the right-wing group Junshinkai, was ticked off by the assumption that Hello Kitty was not Japanese, saying, “That’s the kind of stuff the Chinese say when they pirate our national treasures and goods. It’s outrageous. And unforgivable.”
Of course, designer Yuko Shimizu created Hello Kitty in Japan in the early 1970s—though, there’s been dispute that it rips off Miffy https://kotaku.com/no-two-cartoon-rabbits-are-the-same-except-these-ones-5685093
In 2008, the cat was even named Japan’s “Official Tourism [[link]] Ambassador”. However, Hello Kitty’s official profile contended that the character lived in London with her family. So…shouldn’t she be a tourism ambassador for the U.K.?
In Adelstein’s tongue-in-cheek piece, he and co-writer Nathalie-Kyoto Stucky note that a recent book Hello Kitty’s Guide to Japan, complicates questions of the cartoon cat’s nationality further as it underscores the feline as Japanese—not British. From the piece: According to their story, Hello Kitty is introducing Japan to her American boyfriend Dear Daniel. When he arrives, he discovers Kitty living in a tatami-mat laden house. Her entire family lives in Japan and they all can read Japanese and speak the language fluently. Kitty is so knowledgeable about Japanese culture and traditions that the reader can only surmise she
is either Japanese or an amazingly bilingual Japanese studies scholar. Maybe the cat is a dual citizen? There, argument settled. Phew! Kitten-Sized Controversy: Is Hello Kitty from London [[link]] or Japan? [The Atlantic Wire] (Top photo: Koji Sasahara | AP)
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