Here’s how to add a virtual Suica to an older iPhone from abroad paired with Apple Watch Series 3. Loading a physical Suica card requires iPhone 8 or above but […]
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What’s in a Comma? Unraveling the Mystery of iPhone 7 NFC, FeliCa Support
When Apple announced FeliCa support for iPhone 7 there was speculation that all iPhone 7 and Apple Watch Series 2 devices could, in theory, use Apple Pay in Japan. The […]
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Station Codes Arrive in Yamanote Line Trains
Station codes started appearing on the in-train information screens of the Yamanote line this week. As I said before, station codes, JY 17 SJK for Shinjuku, etc., are really designed as […]
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Apple Pay Suica Express Transit & NFC Readers
Apple Pay Suica Express Transit is one of the great killer features of Apple Pay in Japan. Most of the time it works great but some older readers in stores […]
Japanese Typography
TrueType GX Lives On in OpenType Variable Fonts But Will It Live On at Apple?
Today is the last day of the JGAT page 2017 expo at Sunshine Ikebukuro, Tokyo. Attendance has been up this year and it was a good chance to talk with […]
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Apple Maps Japanese Names: The Long and Longer of It
The Apple Maps Japanese product has always suffered from poor quality local data suppliers. The situation improved a little in late 2016 with the addition of quality public transit data from […]
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