"NIPPON TELEKOMU" and "JAPAN TELECOM AMERICA, INC."
The mark consists of two stylized rings shaping a form similar to the tilted Arabic numeral eight ("8") followed by two stylized Chinese characters (kanji) and four stylized Japanese katakana, or Japanese phonetic alphabets.
THE TWO CHINESE KANJI CHARACTERS IN THE MARK TRANSLITERATE TO "NIPPON OR NIHON" WHICH TRANSLATES TO "JAPAN," AND THE FOUR JAPANESE KATAKANA CHARACTERS TRANSLITERATE TO "TE LE KO MU" WHICH TRANSLATES TO "TELECOMMUNICATIONS".