Many of the nations will proceed based on the Japanese alphabet. By Victor Mather Follow our live coverage of the Tokyo Olympics closing ceremony. Where is the United States marching in the parade ...

The rest of the order of entrances is determined by alphabetical order of the language of the host nation, in this case, Japanese. The two exceptions made this year were to the United States and ...

The order follows Japanese pronunciation syllable by syllable: a, i, u, e, o, ka, ki, ku, ke, ko and so on through the list of consonants paired with the five vowels. Moreover, countries were ...

The Parade of Nations at the Tokyo Olympics follows the Japanese alphabet. Here's a list of the 205 teams participating, in the order they appear.

There are not one but three writing systems that work together in the Japanese alphabet ... The chart is a fifty-block table that arranges the sounds of Kana into something like alphabetical order.

But in 2000, a Japanese language policy council recommended that the family name first order should be adopted. They reasoned that in an increasingly internationalized world, it is important for ...

The alphabetical order isn’t set in stone, though. At the winter games in Pyeongchang, South Korea in 2018, some teams entered out of the order dictated by the Korean alphabet, possibly due to ...