 In the first three games taking place in Japan, due to Japanese pronunciation issues, the nations entered in English alphabetical order instead of Japanese characters.In the upcoming 2020 Summer Olympics, Japanese will be used as an official language as teams will be ordered in a traditional Katakana script.In the 2008 Summer Olympics, teams were ordered by the number of strokes in the Chinese translation of the team name; this is expected to happen again in the 2022 Winter Olympics.