This article was originally published in Seybold Reports Volume 2, Number 18, December 2002 issue under the title, “Inside Hiragino: A Closeup of Apple’s OS X Japanese Font.” It contains […]
Help Desk
Using Apple Pay Suica • PASMO Commuter Passes when transfer protocol is in effect
The Yamanote Line was not running this morning due to a signal malfunction. Yet everything looked like any normal Monday morning commute so I had no idea when I entered […]
Mobile Payments
A warning sign for Japanese open loop transit operators: when the EMV payment network goes down, FeliCa networks keep working
Mobile Suica has had a rough 2 weeks. On June 24 a construction error during server center power supply expansion work left JR East Mobile Suica and Eki-Net online reservation […]
Mobile Payments
MythBusters: plastic Suica isn’t safer than Mobile Suica
On June 24, 2023 0:37 to 13:00 JST, all of JR East online services went offline due to a mishap during server center related power supply construction. The most affected […]
Mobile Payments
Thoughts on the Apple Pay ICOCA launch
Yesterday’s Apple Pay ICOCA launch followed a well established pattern: a widely used Japanese transit card launches on Apple Pay but Apple completely underestimates the demand and Apple Pay servers […]
Apple Pay + Wallet
Apple Pay ICOCA launches for JR West
JR West launched Apple Pay ICOCA today, June 27, three months after launching Mobile ICOCA for Android Osaifu Keitai devices, two months after announcing Apple Pay support, one week later […]