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Sensor data is stored on the device for a fixed period of time, and accumulated data can be transferred using a special application and FeliCa technology, a popular smart card system in Japan.
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The device is particularly well suited for a country with strong misgivings about plastic money: both Japan's credit- and debit-card markets are under-developed.
ECONOMIST: Japanese payments
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Hong Kong's Oriental Daily News hails China's Second Artillery Unit for "flashing a 'trump card' to deter the US and Japan" by deploying new missiles within "striking range" of Okinawa in Japan.
BBC: China media: Hacking dismissed
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One card that China has avoided playing much to Japan's relief is encouraging its citizens to take to the streets in protest.
ECONOMIST: A row over disputed islands goes from bad to worse
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Since then, most European nations as well as Japan and Canada have adopted this so-called EMV international credit card standard and abandoned magnetic stripe credit cards for chip-and-pin cards in the process.
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Federer, whose return to action in Madrid after a two-month break ended with a third-round loss to Japan's Kei Nishikori, also eased through to the third round after beating Italian wild card Potito Starace 6-1 6-2.
CNN: Djokovic eases ankle fears with comfortable win in Rome
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The microdrives, which will come with a PC Card adapter and field case, will be available in the U.S. and Japan in the third quarter of this year, IBM said.
CNN: IBM claims world's tiniest disk drive
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Our textbooks have become a tool of international politics, a card sometimes played in the domestic politics of other countries, or for foreign governments to secure money from Japan.
CNN: 'Let's Stop Apologizing'