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online access Tokyo The incentives of PayPay against the convenience of cash: On the conveniencing of cashless payments in Japan This article offers a two-decade overview of digital payments in Japan, with a focus on the role of convenience stores in the rollout of new payment systems. The aim is both to follow the recent … Read moreThe incentives of PayPay against the convenience of cash: On the conveniencing of cashless payments in Japan

online access Tokyo In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround Convenience is the feeling and aspiration that animates our platformed present. As such, it poses urgent techno-political questions about the everyday digital habitus. From next-day delivery, gig work, and tele-health to cashless payment systems, data centers, and policing convenience is an affordance and an enclosure; our logistical … Read moreIn/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround

online access Tokyo Platformization’s Elsewheres: Japanese Convenience Stores and the Platform Economy Platformization’s elsewheres refers to other locations and places where platformization as a process takes place. This article focuses on the franchised Japanese convenience store as a particularly salient site from which to understand platformization in Japan. It is also crucial for thinking the … Read morePlatformization’s Elsewheres: Japanese Convenience Stores and the Platform Economy