The CASHLESS Rebate program ends June 30. After that date we have 8% consumption tax for takeout, 10% for eat in, and 10% for everything else. In the long ago […]
Buddhism - Culture Wars
Climbing Shichimensan 2020
My nephew passed away in January at the age of 36 from a diabetic coma. Ten years ago he came to Japan with his dad (my older brother), on a […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - CASHLESS - Mobile Payments - NFC - Suica
Dear Starbucks, please give us a NFC Starbucks rewards card
The Starbuck app server was down this morning. Fortunately my daily Starbucks has Suica payments and the staff kindly stamped customer receipts so everybody could get the Starbucks Card refill […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Mobile Payments - NFC
The Apple Pay EU antitrust investigation
The EU antitrust investigation of Apple Pay boils down to this: does Apple have the right to be the gatekeeper of its Embedded Secure Element (eSE) in the Apple A/S […]
Apple
iOS 14 Apple Maps Japan Wish List: filling the blanks (Updated)
Apple Maps Japan can’t catch a break. Traffic has been available since September 2019 but only got listed on the feature availability page last week, June 2020. Handa International Airport […]