'Kawaii' culture evaluation in Malaysia

Japanese kawaii culture has been popular throughout the world recently. It influences the socio-economy in areas of fashion, tourism, transportation, etc. which can be seen clearly. In Malaysia, the kawaii culture is getting popular among young people through the fashion. The research aim is to o...

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Main Authors: Abdul Rahman, Julaila, Md Fudzee, Farhana, Furuya, Shigeru
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Published: 2014
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spelling iium-495672016-05-09T00:41:43Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/49567/ 'Kawaii' culture evaluation in Malaysia Abdul Rahman, Julaila Md Fudzee, Farhana Furuya, Shigeru H Social Sciences (General) HM621 Culture NX Arts in general Japanese kawaii culture has been popular throughout the world recently. It influences the socio-economy in areas of fashion, tourism, transportation, etc. which can be seen clearly. In Malaysia, the kawaii culture is getting popular among young people through the fashion. The research aim is to observe the Malaysian understanding on Japanese kawaii culture in two kinds of surveys. In both surveys, the samples of fashion were selected and arranged in paired for evaluation to get its categorization of intimacy among all the samples. Collected data for both surveys were analyzed by Mds and cluster analysis. The first survey is to study the Malaysian understanding on Japanese kawaii fashion. Thirty kinds of samples of Japanese fashion were selected. As a result, four kinds of groups of kawaii Japanese fashion were obtained, which were ‘stylish’, ‘teen’, ‘rare’ and 'ayu'. The next survey is to study the recent kawaii fashion in Malaysia. Twenty two kinds of samples of Malaysian kawaiii fashion were selected. The results showed that ayu, adult, boyish and street-look were the groups.As the conclsion, it can be said that in both surveys, Malaysian understood the kawaii image of fashion contains the ayu element. Japanese kawaii fashion was more towards the teenagers, while Malaysian kawaii fashion was more towards the adult style. Japanese kawaii fashion was evaluated as a new trend, while Malaysian kawaii fashion is more to daily attire; boyish and street-look. Kawaii culture has been innovated to be suited to Malaysians' own style and look, which has the religous consideration. Kawaii culture in Malaysia is one of the good subculture that can be developed more to enhance the economy growth. 2014 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/49567/1/for_IREP_02.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/49567/4/Tesshi_sijil.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/49567/5/COVER_AND_TABLE_OF_CONTENT_E_PROCEEDING_TESSHI.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/49567/9/Pages_from_eProceedings_TeSSHI_2014.pdf Abdul Rahman, Julaila and Md Fudzee, Farhana and Furuya, Shigeru (2014) 'Kawaii' culture evaluation in Malaysia. In: Technology, Science, Social Sciences and Humanities International Conference – TeSSHI 2014, 5-6 November 2014, Langkawi, Kedah.
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HM621 Culture
NX Arts in general
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HM621 Culture
NX Arts in general
Abdul Rahman, Julaila
Md Fudzee, Farhana
Furuya, Shigeru
'Kawaii' culture evaluation in Malaysia
description Japanese kawaii culture has been popular throughout the world recently. It influences the socio-economy in areas of fashion, tourism, transportation, etc. which can be seen clearly. In Malaysia, the kawaii culture is getting popular among young people through the fashion. The research aim is to observe the Malaysian understanding on Japanese kawaii culture in two kinds of surveys. In both surveys, the samples of fashion were selected and arranged in paired for evaluation to get its categorization of intimacy among all the samples. Collected data for both surveys were analyzed by Mds and cluster analysis. The first survey is to study the Malaysian understanding on Japanese kawaii fashion. Thirty kinds of samples of Japanese fashion were selected. As a result, four kinds of groups of kawaii Japanese fashion were obtained, which were ‘stylish’, ‘teen’, ‘rare’ and 'ayu'. The next survey is to study the recent kawaii fashion in Malaysia. Twenty two kinds of samples of Malaysian kawaiii fashion were selected. The results showed that ayu, adult, boyish and street-look were the groups.As the conclsion, it can be said that in both surveys, Malaysian understood the kawaii image of fashion contains the ayu element. Japanese kawaii fashion was more towards the teenagers, while Malaysian kawaii fashion was more towards the adult style. Japanese kawaii fashion was evaluated as a new trend, while Malaysian kawaii fashion is more to daily attire; boyish and street-look. Kawaii culture has been innovated to be suited to Malaysians' own style and look, which has the religous consideration. Kawaii culture in Malaysia is one of the good subculture that can be developed more to enhance the economy growth.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Abdul Rahman, Julaila
Md Fudzee, Farhana
Furuya, Shigeru
author_facet Abdul Rahman, Julaila
Md Fudzee, Farhana
Furuya, Shigeru
author_sort Abdul Rahman, Julaila
title 'Kawaii' culture evaluation in Malaysia
title_short 'Kawaii' culture evaluation in Malaysia
title_full 'Kawaii' culture evaluation in Malaysia
title_fullStr 'Kawaii' culture evaluation in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed 'Kawaii' culture evaluation in Malaysia
title_sort 'kawaii' culture evaluation in malaysia
publishDate 2014
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/49567/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/49567/1/for_IREP_02.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/49567/4/Tesshi_sijil.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/49567/5/COVER_AND_TABLE_OF_CONTENT_E_PROCEEDING_TESSHI.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/49567/9/Pages_from_eProceedings_TeSSHI_2014.pdf
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