With over 6 billion emojis sent on a daily basis, and over 90% of the world’s online community making regular use of them, emojis may be one of Japan’s greatest exports.

This summer, Japan House London opens its doors to a new exhibition centred around pictograms and Japanese design. Building ...

VOX POPULI: Latest chapter in the history of emoji draws to a close in Japan Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a daily column that runs on Page 1 of The Asahi Shimbun. June 2, 2025 at 15:29 JST ...

Emoji became massively popular in Japan as an element of texting, especially among teenagers in the 2000s, with some creating emoji-only messages, before taking root globally.

NTT Docomo will phase out its proprietary set of emoji — known as Docomo Emoji — starting with smartphones released in late June, according to an announcement from the telecom giant, ending a ...

Japanese telecom giant NTT Docomo Inc. will retire its set of original emoji whose release 26 years ago helped shape the visual language of today's digital communications. The carrier's Android ...