Yahoo Japan Maps has the best cartography in Japan in comparison with Apple and Google and remains the local leader. They are the only major map that gets notoriously difficult […]
Japanese Typography
Unicode needs a new Mission
With Unicode adding more and more useless emoji, and seemly doing little else, it’s time to ask an important question: what the fuck is the Unicode Consortium supposed to be […]
Japanese Typography
Japanese Text Layout for the Future* (hint: there isn’t one)
I finally had time to catch Adobe Nat McCully’s ATypl Tokyo 2019 presentation. He covers a topic I have covered many times before: the (sad) state of CJK typography. As […]
Apple Pay Suica - Maps - Mobile Payments - NFC-Felica - QR Code Payments - Signage - Suica
Reviews are in and it’s official: CASHLESS Rebate maps suck
Japan App Store reviews are fun to read because the Japanese write wonderfully scathing reviews. Never ‘this sucks’, but a numbing dry, oh so super dry analysis of everything wrong. […]
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Tokyo Cashless 2020: Are Apple Maps and Siri really Apple Pay level ready for the Tokyo Olympics?
1️⃣ Dear JR East, we need a new Suica Charge App2️⃣ Consumption tax relief with the CASHLESS rebate program3️⃣ >Are Apple Maps and Siri really Apple Pay level ready for […]
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Apple Maps Japan is Dope? Nope
My site doesn’t get many hits from Reddit but I always check new incoming ones just to see what the conversation is. Reddit is a parallel universe. Sometimes it intersects […]