visitors have to use ticket machines or buy physical transit cards with integrated circuit chips, such as Suica or Pasmo cards, when riding Japan's public transport. Sumitomo Mitsui's idea is to allow ...

This photo shows a passenger using a credit card to go through a ticket gate in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan. (Photo courtesy of Sumitomo Mitsui Card Co.) (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A major Japanese ...