It’s been a long time coming but VISA Japan has finally come under scrutiny from the Japan Fair Trade Commission for breaking Japan’s anti-monopoly act, telling VISA to reform their […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Apple Pay Express Transit fear mongers alive and well peddling outdated information (updated)
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, […]
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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 […]
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Apple Pay drops the FeliCa requirement for Japanese issue payment cards
Spring is always the time for new product announcements in Japan which starts in March. Today, 2025-03-03 marks the day that Apple dropped the FeliCa requirement for payment cards resulting […]