So I found that from a journal also apparently officially Japan started teaching Western language topics including English, French, German, Dutch from 1886 for a while with Shōgakkō-rei (小学校令). I was trying to find more on how this was seen socially. https://t.co/HKRtj8pH38

Ah so this is interesting ^^. Those images are from a paper from someone's 2009 essay in Japanese about how Hello Kitty's look has changed, which is available here. https://t.co/4UFE1APxRD https://t.co/NCqSTpZuHv