Payments in Japan are complicated. Picture an iPad Pro screen full of nothing but different payment types -- all from competing vendors! -- and that's what the

Payments in Japan are complicated. Picture an iPad Pro screen full of nothing but different payment types -- all from competing vendors! -- and that's what the payment screen looks like at my local combini. Some places will accept a NFC payment from my credit card, but still can't do ApplePay. Or they accept a wide variety of local NFC payments -- Suica/Pasmo, all the rest -- but not from credit cards. There's also a host of payment apps -- PayPay, LINE Pay, probably three or four others. Plus JCB cards. And a bunch of flavors in-between.