In the run-up to the June 27 Eki-Net reboot next month JR East released a nice looking PR release with the first 2 pages promoting a ticketless future. On page […]
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WWDC21 Apple Maps Japan Wish List
Apple Maps has settled into a comfortable glacial groove. Improvements are announced at WWDC but actual service rollouts are literally all over the map. Smaller markets like the UK get […]
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Japan’s new economic zone: Rakuten
The April 30 addition of iPhone 12 lineup to Rakuten Mobile marked the transformation of Rakuten Mobile into a first tier carrier on the same level of Docomo, KDDI au […]
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Great Awakenings
Japan has a saying: history is a nice hobby but don’t make a career out of it. Like religion and philosophy, history is a creation of the human mind, a […]
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Sitting out the super upgrade cycle
We are in a 5G super upgrade cycle but I’m sitting this one out. 3 year carrier contracts without subsidies are the norm in Japan now, technically I have until […]
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Octopus 2.0
The Apple Pay Octopus launch in June 2020 marked the end of an era of Octopus as the exclusive Hong Kong MTR home grown transit platform, and the start of […]