As the New York Post previously reported, New Zealand also has a list of forbidden names — and it’s royally strict. King ...

Japan has played an important role in the development of pictograms, with designers from the Nippon Design Center creating the first full set of sporting pictograms in 1964 for the Tokyo Olympic ...

Next year will see the Osaka Kansai Japan ... 1964 Toyko Olympic Games. Building on this legacy, designers from the Nippon Design Center have created an award-winning set of pictograms, a ...

But at the Paris Olympics, newly designed sports pictograms look less like public ... faced with a flood of visitors who wouldn’t know Japanese, designers under the direction of Katsumi Masaru ...

Paris last hosted the summer Olympic Games in 1924 and for France ... of Paris’s shifting cityscape is a fun sport in itself. Minako Norimatsu is a Japanese journalist and consultant based in Paris.

Such is the power of an Olympic logo as the tiny pictogram encapsulates the essence of the game ... For the 1964 Olympic Games, Japan produced a simple yet impactful emblem. While the giant red circle ...

Athletes are entering the stadium to songs from famous Japanese video games ... Pantomime performers in full-body suits acted out the 50 pictograms that represent each Olympic sport, which were ...