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• It's Not Just Hello Kitty: Japan's character Craze

  Hello Kitty, whom many learned last week is a girl and not a cat, may be the queen of Japan's cute characters, but she's hardly the only one.

• Hello Kitty is Not a Cat. For the Truth, Click Here

  Hello Kitty is not a cat, the company behind Japan's global icon of cute insisted on Thursday, despite an uproar from Internet users who spluttered: "But she's got whiskers!"