East Japan Railway, the nation’s largest railway company covers eastern Honshu (the main island of Japan) including Tokyo and around area, announced [J] that Amazon Japan (and its online shoes shop Javari) accepts their Suica e-money immediately from release day, February 19th. Suica has been issued 38.88 million at the end of March 2012, 36.57… Continue reading Amazon Japan Now Accept Suica, Mobile e-Money Issued 36-Million By East Japan Railway
Tag: Edy
e-Money Service Edy Rebrands Itself As Rakuten Edy
BitWallet, who runs one of Japan’s most successful e-money service Edy since 2011, who joined the Japan’s largest e-mall group Rakuten in January 2010, 2 years ago, announced [J] that the e-money brand Edy will be changed to “Rakuten Edy” from June 1, 2012. Rakuten did similar renaming on companies they bought, like DLJdirect SFG… Continue reading e-Money Service Edy Rebrands Itself As Rakuten Edy
A Blogger Taking The Same Vendor Machine Photo For More Than 5 Years
A Japanese blog “Watashi ha Mainichi (no you ni) Jidou Hanbaiki no Shashin wo Totte imasu. Gomen-nasai” [J], which means “I am taking a photo of the vendor machine (almost) every day. Sorry”, is a blog dedicated for the same coca cola vending machine in Sapporo, Hokkaido with over 5 years’ successful story. The blog… Continue reading A Blogger Taking The Same Vendor Machine Photo For More Than 5 Years
Rakuten Subsidises Electronic Money Service Edy
BitWallet, Inc. [J], a company has been running Edy [J] since 2001, will allocate new stocks to a third party at the end of this year, about 3 billion yen of which will be bought by Rakuten. Rakuten group, centres the giant e-commerce mall Rakuten Ichiba, purchased KC Card, a credit card company in 2005… Continue reading Rakuten Subsidises Electronic Money Service Edy