Hello Kitty in World War 2

Hello Kitty.

If you try and dig up Hello Kitty’s roots you will find this basic information: Hello Kitty was created in 1974 by the Sanrio Company of Japan in Tokyo, Japan. Registered in 1976. I got this blurb from Wikipedia. But to be honest most sites say the same thing.

The other day I was working with a Chinese woman and we started discussing Hello Kitty. She began telling me some interesting bits of information about Kitty that I did not know. It was a story about a Chinese general back in the 1700’s who had many wives. One of the daughters of one of the lesser wives was distraught over never being recognized in their house. She ended up committing suicide. Now, the rest of the house was very angry at this because they claimed the girls room was now haunted…as they would often hear the dead girls voice calling to them asking if they wanted to play. To calm everyones fears, the General had a doll made in the shape of a cat, I think for good luck, and insisted that it not be given a mouth. The doll was to replace the ghost and without a mouth would not be able to speak any more.

My co-worker told me that this information is not unknown…but I begged to differ, as no web site I visited mentioned anything like this. She then went to her computer and showed my numerous sites that made mention to it…but being in Chinese, I still had no proof. Then we saw this site! The two images that I am including are taken from a World War II display case in a Southern province in China. The medal is dated as 1940!!! And was warn by an American soldier who died fighting the Japanese. Interesting yes!!!. Hello Kitty seems to have an earlier history than Sanrio.

Here is the URL to the forum/Blog

awesome news Prisoner,

it seems that this investigation demonstrate an earlier presence of the Hello-Kitty myth. that is interesting.

Thought it was all over a 100% japan invention Suspect