電子決済マガジン / Electronic Payments Magazine

Electronic Payments Magazine (電子決済マガジン) is a Japanese news site on cashless payments published by the Electronic Payment Research Laboratory, with new items almost every day. Categories include news releases, reports, hands-on experience reviews, columns and book reviews, and the magazine also posts on Facebook and Twitter.

Recent articles

On 18 October 2026 a column, "Reading the Nameless Dictionary", imagined unnamed moments in the history of electronic payment. On 16 October it covered Mercari's cross-border e-commerce, where Japanese pop culture is driving sales, with plans to widen payment options for its global app. On 15 October it previewed CEATEC 2026, with UWB walk-through ticket gates and smart-home security demos, as a guide to payment-related attractions.

Why it is worth knowing

Japan's payment landscape, from QR wallets to transit IC cards and terminals, is hard to follow in English. This magazine covers the local players, terminal makers and merchant-side trials in Japanese, and it runs a dedicated page on payment terminals. For PSPs and wallets planning Japanese acceptance, it shows which products and partnerships appear first in the home market.