Hello, Kitty—if that’s even your real name. Turns out, it isn’t. As Hello Kitty approaches her 50th anniversary—which will officially occur November 1—fans are in a frenzy over lesser ...

"Hello Kitty has become a part of life," says Caroline Tsang Shui-kwan, Sanrio Hong Kong's chief operating officer for Asia. She adds that handling a character as famous as Hello Kitty is like ...