[1]Google Pay Suica Goes Live:

     As anticipated by Android Police [2]earlier this month Suica has
     officially launched on [3]Google Pay in Japan. Mobile Suica has been
     available on the Android platform since 2011 via the
     [4]Osaifu-Keitai e-wallet service offered by the major Japanese
     carriers NTT Docomo, KDDI au and Softbank.

     With this rollout all the major stored value "prepaid" e-money cards
     are now on Google Pay: [5]Suica, [6]WAON, [7]nananco and [8]Rakuten
     EDY. JCB and JACCS credit card support and the Japanese P2P startup
     [9]Kyash service is promised for later this summer. It's not clear
     however what Android devices are supported beyond Osaifu-Keitai
     models from the major JP carriers. As I wrote earlier, FeliCa
     support on Android devices outside of the Japan market is a
     [10]complicated story, Google support of FeliCa up to now has been
     uneven at best.

     Hopefully we'll get a clearer picture in the next few days.

   (Via [11]Ata Distance)

   This might be too little, too late. Apple Pay has a huge lead here. The
   fragmented nature of Android devices doesn't help.

   UPDATE: [12]More Google Pay Suica MIA:

     Japanese Twitter users are posting lots of interesting details and
     the list of [13]Google Pay Suica limitations continues to grow: one
     Suica per phone, limited (no?) Suica Commuter support, no Shinkansen
     e-tickets, Google Pay Suica transaction records only cover
     purchases, not transit, and so on.

     Osaifu-Keitai Android users will continue to rely on the Mobile
     Suica app to cover the functions that Google Pay Suica does not
     support.

   (Via [14]Ata Distance)

   UPDATE 2: [15]Google Pay + HCE-F ≠ FeliCa Suica:

     Google Pay users outside of Japan who do not have a Osaifu-Keitai
     compatible model are waking up to the rude fact that Google Pay does
     not give them all that FeliCa Apple Pay Suica-like goodness out of
     the box.

     Google Pay Japan is exactly what Android Pay Japan was: a thin
     veneer over Osaifu-Keitai that confuses the hell out of Android
     users around the world. A lot of angry users will vent that this is
     a 'Japanese tech' failure but the reality is that this is simply a
     Google choice. Google could have licensed the entire FeliCa stack
     like Apple did but they didn't.

     My money says it is a market related political choice to keep the JP
     carriers happy selling carrier locked Android devices. The Android
     equivalent of the [16]Global FeliCa iPhone has yet to appear.

   (Via [17]Ata Distance)
   Also on:

   [18]Twitter
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   My original entry is here: [19]Google Pay Suica Goes Live. It posted
   Fri, 25 May 2018 01:49:23 +0000.
   Filed under: Japan, tech,

References

   1. https://atadistance.net/2018/05/24/google-pay-suica-goes-live/
   2. https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/04/22/google-pay-v1-57-prepares-support-airline-boarding-passes-event-tickets-suica-waon-payment-cards-apk-teardown/
   3. https://pay.google.com/intl/ja_jp/about/
   4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaifu-Keitai
   5. http://www.jreast.co.jp/mobilesuica/android/
   6. https://www.waon.net/
   7. https://www.nanaco-net.jp/
   8. https://edy.rakuten.co.jp/howto/
   9. https://kyash.co/en/company/#vision
  10. https://atadistance.net/2018/05/03/google-pay-suica/
  11. https://atadistance.net/
  12. https://atadistance.net/2018/05/24/more-google-pay-suica-mia/
  13. https://atadistance.net/2018/05/24/google-pay-suica-goes-live/
  14. https://atadistance.net/
  15. https://atadistance.net/2018/05/24/google-pay-hce-f-≠-felica-suica/
  16. https://atadistance.net/2017/09/12/iphone-x-keynote-global-felica/
  17. https://atadistance.net/
  18. https://twitter.com/TokyoGringo/status/999830823485534210
  19. https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=1121