Federico Pistono

Gregory Palast is a New York Times-bestselling author and a journalist for the BBC as well as The Observer. His work frequently focuses on corporate malfeasance but has also been known to work with labor unions and consumer advocacy groups.

I find Western (forgive me for using that) emoticons to be quite inexpressive and boring. They appear lifeless , cold and they read vertically. Japanese emoticons, on the other hand, are powerful and they read horizontally (like our writing). The internet is full of resources about these tiny little faces, but somehow I did not manage to obtain a single page that contains all the significant ones. I often find myself using them, be that in emails, blogs, forums, chats, and even more frequently my friends do not understand me. Now you can. （⌒▽⌒）

I compiled this list using wikipedia and a few japanese blogs, it's a non comprehensive list, but it's good enough as a resource whenever I need a face to describe my emotion, I figured it may useful to you as well.