The original set of emoji was created by one Japanese person in a weekend for a Japanese mobile operator. So these images, like the blood types, the astrology s

The original set of emoji was created by one Japanese person in a weekend for a Japanese mobile operator. So these images, like the blood types, the astrology signs and the cats and later the rice ball and the pile of poo are images Japanese people would want to use in their communication. The Wikipedia page of the creator has some links to the origin story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigetaka_Kurita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigetaka_Kurita