On the left, the temple symbol currently used on Japanese-language maps, and on the right is the proposed new symbol for foreign-language maps A Japanese proposal to stop using swastikas to ...

Some of the new map symbols proposed by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan. Geospatial Information Authority of Japan The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan is proposing to ...

The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) has released a set of new standard symbols for foreign-language maps after criticism that some of its current pictograms are hard to understand ...

BTS have released their first new Japanese-language album in two years. MAP OF THE SOUL : 7 ~ THE JOURNEY ~ features versions of songs from their most recent album MAP OF THE SOUL : 7 that have ...

the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) is proposing to replace it with a pagoda in its foreign-language maps. However, the plans to replace it have been met with criticism ...

In particular, the GSI, as the government organization is also called, wanted to pick the brains of non-Japanese people on the symbols and pictograms used on foreign-language maps in Japan. Based on ...