"The Hello Kitty Chest with Casters is a robot-shaped chest with a Hello Kitty design, released by Nichigan Corporation, a company that has been delivering wooden toys and miscellaneous goods to ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Photo: A replica of the first ever Hello Kitty product. Credit: Getty Images) Her design – a white cat with a red bow in its hair – only took a couple of days to complete. Yuko asked her ...