Hello Kitty Named Japan’s Ambassador

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The Mouthless One has landed yet another title in her amazing resume, the Japanese Tourism Ministry just named Hello Kitty the tourism ambassador to China.

Japan hopes that the character’s popularity with children and women will help increase the flow of tourists to Japan.  Sanrio would have you believe that it’s diplomatic mission to China began months ago when a Hello Kitty inspired musical opened in Chinese theaters. However I believe it all started, and on a bad note, years ago when they started mass producing millions of pieces of Hello Kitty merchandise in China.

Imagine how many thousands if not millions of people in China have spent countless hours manufacturing stuff with the face of The Mouthless One! To them this new ambassador might seem more like a tyrant, a cute, pink, glittery tyrant.

[Associated Press]

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  • 6 Comments

    1. Maggie
      May 20th, 2008 at 7:18 am

      Hehe, that reminds me of Jon Stewart’s book on America, in which he superimposes Hello Kitty on top of the Prime Minister’s head. :P

    2. Random J
      May 20th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

      She’s working the hell out of that yukata.

    3. Khaim
      May 20th, 2008 at 6:34 pm

      As long as h_k does not end up in the next mistery chopsuey, everything will be alright, unless chopsuey is only done in America, then again, cats fit in almost any (Chinese) dish (i dont mind. Aztecs used to eat escuincles so there we have it, Mexico is (or was) on par with Korea once)

    4. Angelywind
      May 22nd, 2008 at 12:19 am

      jajaja I agree. Just tell me one place where theres no Hello Kitty.

    5. Link
      May 23rd, 2008 at 2:16 pm

      Irrrrrony.

    6. July 10th, 2008 at 6:52 pm

      [...] content with being Japan’s Cultural Ambassador to China, Hello Kitty apparently also wants to help protect Chinese PC’s from virus and hackers with this [...]


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