So if you're looking for someone who does excellent comedy in Japanese, I'd recommend this guy. As to the actual content: the non-obvious rationale is "Consumer banking has to make money somehow; options are limited in a low interest rate environment."https://twitter.com/Dogen/status/1180419355827298305 …
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I assume the low amount spent on cards is because Japan is still very cash-centric; have there been attempts to change this? e.g. banks saying "handling cash is expensive" or the government saying "large amounts of cash make money laundering too easy"?
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Ah you have clearly anticipated the massive government-and-financial-sector “cashless” marketing push of the last few years, which uses both those messages/aims and a few else besides. They’re trying to increase the percentage of non-cash consumer transactions from 20 to 40 by X.
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