More fun than emoticons: Discover Kaomoji!

I’m sure you know that the emojis we use every day came from Japan. The first emoji set was created in the late 1990s by Shigetaka Kurita for NTT DoCoMo’s mobile platform. These tiny pictograms were designed to make communication faster and more expressive, and they sparked a global phenomenon. But Japan didn’t stop at colorful icons. Long before smartphones, Japanese users were already masters of text-based emoji, known as kaomoji 顔文字.

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