IF you’re bored of the current lot of iPhone emoji, there’s a way to unlock an enormous trove of new icons. All it takes is a ...

Nominations for Japan’s buzzword of the year were released ... like “Neko Meme” or “cat meme”, “BeReal”; a French social networking app that asks users to post unfiltered photos ...

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, ...

There are some secret hidden emojis on your iPhone that you may not have heard about, so if you're bored of the reaction ...

Cats have been an ever-present part of Japanese culture for hundreds of years: sometimes cherished as devoted protectors of ...

No country adores cats quite as much as Japan. One look at Japanese art, literature, or media, and you’ll see just how Japan ...

Cats are quicker than babies to associate a picture of a word with its corresponding picture, new research shows.

(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 ...

Instead of sending a series of numbers, though, emojam lets you send a string of emoji. The device comes with over 1,100 ... 10 with a suggested retail price of 7,150 yen, and an Amazon Japan preorder ...

A Japanese woman died last year of a tick-borne disease after being bitten by a stray cat, Japan's health ministry says, in what could be the first such mammal-to-human transmission. The unnamed ...

The Japan Pet Food Association estimated there were almost 16 million pet cats and dogs in the country last year, more than the number of children under 15. Tech startup Carelogy and researchers ...

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?