It was just a year ago when JR East dropped the Suica bomb at the NFC Forum Japan meeting. In his presentation, JR East IT/Suica Operations Center manager Hajime Yamada […]
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Apple Pay Japan 8 Months in: Winners and Losers
Japanese IT journalist Junya Suzuki continues his excellent coverage of all things contactless and Apple Pay Japan. In his latest piece for Business Insider Japan he looks at the […]
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The Last Showa Store on Shopping Street
The Showa era was officially over when the Showa Emperor passed away in 1989. Current Showa era nostalgia is post-war baby boom Showa running from the early late Fifties to […]
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Apple Pay Suica Card Deposit Refunds (U)
When you purchase a physical Suica card from a JR East station ticket machine, the minimum purchase price is ¥1,000. ¥500 goes to the Suica ‘card deposit’, the remaining ¥500 […]
Apple Pay Suica
The Suica that Refreshes
The JR East Suica penguin character is a clever sly cultural reference to pre-war, and post-war, European remarks that Japan is an island full of ‘busy little penguins’. Laughing at […]
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