I just checked my settings and still don't see an option for completely disabling the emoji keyboard. What about the users who hate emoji and never want to use them?

[vent] I've also been waiting nearly a year for the Japanese keyboard to be released... the Beta had worked "good enough" and it's rather annoying I can't use something that was good enough because the beta is over... they pushed Arabic and Chinese ahead of Japanese rather quickly. It's aggravating. [/endvent]