IT journalist Junya Suzuki wrote an interesting piece for Impress Watch detailing the recent Rakuten Pay Suica announcement. Unfortunately there was a major missing piece of analysis: Super Suica. I […]
Mobile Payments
Contactless Payment Turf Wars: Apple Card and the Prepaid Innovation of Apple Pay Suica
Contactless Payment Turf Wars: Transit Platforms Contactless Payment Turf Wars: PiTaPa Pitfalls Contactless Payment Turf Wars: Why Oyster is missing from mobile Contactless Payment Turf Wars: Tapping the potential of […]
Apple Pay Suica - Mobile Payments - NFC-Felica - Suica - Transit
Rakuten Pay branded Suica for Android in 2020
Apple Pay users got the Mizuho branded Suica in 2018, so it’s only fair that Android Suica users get a digitally branded Suica too. JR East and Rakuten announced Rakuten […]
Apple Pay Suica - Apple Pay Transit - NFC-Felica - Suica - Transit
Golden Week Golden JRE POINT
Golden Week 2019 is going to be an extraordinarily long one, 10 days in all. It would not be Golden Week without a few marketing gimmicks and JR East has […]
Apple - Apple Pay Suica - Suica App
Maintenance and Localization
Online guides are like underwear, if not changed regularly, they get smelly and nasty. There were some big changes in March 2019 from JR East: multilingual help support and SuicaEng. […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Pay Transit - iPhone - NFC-Felica - Suica - Transit
Apple Pay Drove FeliCa Contactless Growth in 2018
The CreditCard no Yomimono site (CCY) has collected and listed all the FeliCa contactless card issued to date numbers released by Japanese companies in 2018 into one convenient table. WAON […]