![]() He drew inspiration from Japanese manga where characters are often drawn with symbolic representations called manpu (such as a water drop on a face representing nervousness or confusion), and weather pictograms used to depict weather conditions. Although an earlier set of emoji had appeared on the J-Phone in 1997, with limited adoption due to high prices, the first popular emoji set is attributed to Japanese telecommunications planner and NTT DoCoMo employee Shigetaka Kurita in 1999, who sketched illustrations after coming up with the idea of adding simple images to NTT DoCoMo's texting feature. ![]() ![]() The creation and early development of emojis dates back to the late 1990s in Japan.
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