IntroIn the episodic 2015 Japanese film ‘Midnight Diner’, one of the story threads involves somebody leaving the cremated remains behind in the diner. The regular customers and the diner owner […]
Mobile Payments
Apple Pay branding and what it means
As usual, the ever growing number of inbound visitors to Japan are scratching heads at store checkout terminals asking to ‘pay with Apple Pay’ which doesn’t mean anything in the […]
Mobile Payments - Mobile Transit
NFC Release 15, marketing vs reality
There’s been a lot of online discussion of the NFC Forum NFC Release 15 announcement. The public can’t access new specification details until this fall but the headline feature of […]
Digital ID
My Number ID for iPhone Apple Wallet
The long convoluted My Number ID for iPhone Apple Wallet saga is finally over with the Digital Agency June 24 service launch. The cat was already out of the bag […]
Mobile Payments - Mobile Transit
Apple Pay Express Transit fear mongers alive and well peddling outdated information
Ghost stories are a summertime tradition in Japan, especially ‘ghost pictures’. Everybody knows they’re fake but they still hold a lurid fascinating appeal to the human imagination. When done right, […]
Mobile Payments
The offline contactless catch
Aeon and NHK had an interesting tussle recently over an NHK report of credit card fraud. Japanese news media reported yet another cigarette fraud purchase scandal similar to the recent […]