A simple $0.99 iPhone app made by Richard Henry (product designer at Quora), Kaomoji contains 1,000 Japanese-style emoticons organized in 28 categories such as Happy, Sad, Evil, Love, Cats, Dogs, ...

Tokyo: From a humble smiley face with a box mouth and inverted “V’s” for eyes, weather symbols and a rudimentary heart, emoji have now exploded into the world’s fastest-growing language.

You just need a really good 10-page paper. Emoji is actually a Japanese word that means "pictogram" or "pictograph." SoftBank, a Japanese wireless carrier, created the first known emoji set in 1997.

as I believed they were easy to use especially under the Japanese language framework. Q: What is your take on the permanent emoji collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City?

An emoticon is a blend of ‘emotion’ and ‘icon’, made up of characters from a keyboard, whereas an emoji (a combination of the Japanese ‘e’ for ‘picture’ and ‘moji’ for ...

(The museum acquired the original suite of emoji designs for their permanent collection in 2016; an acknowledgement of the work’s important place in communication history.) Designers Jesse Reed and ...