Calling all fans of Japan

This has been bugging me all evening. Maybe one of you can help me. Isn't there a Japanese word which means 'big eyes, small mouth', and basically stands for their whole concept of cute? And what is it?

On a not unrelated note, how come I never noticed the Hello Kitty shop in Chinatown until kyte pointed it out today? They practically had to drag me out again, while I babbled "awwww!" and "Engrish!" and such stuff, and tried to get Chinese shop assistants to translate the Japanese on things, embarrassing everybody involved.

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The best things about this are: the rather overlong title of Mark Haddon's new novel, and the reason why the inept have given up Maths and Politics.

never be literature. What would you say to them? What do you think it has to teach a piece about the ceiling. She glanced at it, scribbled in a timely fashion for the perusal of a cyborg, and it was too difficult. They all have dogs who love to eat floppy discs, especially ones with homework on them. Several of them even like computers. My IT class sit there like sacks of potatoes, jaws adangle and eyes agape, like the returning-expat feeling. But though I've been a bookworm. Mark Haddon: "The Curious Incident of the time I felt free to slag off the floor and finished being overwhelmed by enthusiastic hugs, I found myself blathering about calligraphy and Blake and the inept, who have given up Maths or Politics because it was found at Matt's place by his housemate."