“I know this is what everyone’s been talking about,” she says. She has a Hello Kitty cup in her hand as well as a still-wrapped cup. “So, actually my mom went to McDonald’s and told ...

so it was hand in hand. The fact that Hello Kitty is now fully recognised as a kind of Japan, kind of a cool Japan, I think that’s part of the effect of all of this." She says the 50th ...