Many of the nations will proceed based on the Japanese alphabet. Share full article Michael Phelps carried the flag for the United States during the opening ceremony in Rio De Janeiro in 2016.

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

BBC Languages - Learn Japanese in your own time and have fun with Languages of the world. The Japanese alphabet and what's significant about it ...