Japan to collaborate on Chinese payment services with joint QR code

TOKYO -- Efforts are underway between Japan and other Asian countries to allow mutual access and use of QR code payment services that are popular in their own countries. Japan has started talks with Southeast Asian countries and India to enable joint use of the digital payment services by 2025.

Yoshio Fukuda, general director of the Payments Japan Association, which operates the country's standardized QR code payment system called JPQR, said Japan will also collaborate with individual Chinese digital payment services, in a recent interview with Nikkei.