ASIAN POP How Hello Kitty Came to Rule the World / With little advertising and no TV spinoff, Sanrio

For Japan's Sanrio Company Ltd., the worldwide purveyor of everything Hello Kitty, its steady outpouring of cute-cat merchandise constitutes more than a product line; with more than 20,000 items available at any given time, of which roughly 10,000 are aim

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