The pictorial shorthand of emojis is perfect for small phone screens. It has also sprawled into a lexicon rich in metaphor ...

The big thing in Japan now is Line, ... But Japanese emoticons – known as kaomoji, or face-text – come in a dizzying array of variations. They are complicated mixtures of punctuation, ...

The big thing in Japan now is Line, ... But Japanese emoticons—known as kaomoji, or face-text—come in a dizzying array of variations. They are complicated mixtures of punctuation, ...

We all know the shruggie, the greatest emoticon of this generation: ¯_(ツ)_/¯. But the shruggie’s just a gateway into kaomojis, or Japanese emoticons. These tend to be a lot more complex than ...

The first round of what came to be called emoji—a Japanese neologism that means, more or less, “picture word”—were designed by Kurita, using a pencil and paper, as drawings on a 12-by-12 ...

TOKYO - Line Corp.'s shares surged in its debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, following its initial public offering in New York, as investors cashed in on the popular Japanese messaging app that ...

TOKYO—In its home market of Japan, mobile-phone application Line won tens of millions of users by combining on-the-go messaging with cutesy emoticons, like the pink-cheeked, smiley-faced ...