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Lawson to Launch Japan's First POS-Integrated Stablecoin Payment Trial
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Fusion42 · 13 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Lawson will pilot Japan's first POS-integrated stablecoin payment trial in August using JPYC, a regulated yen-pegged stablecoin, at a Tokyo store with barcode scanning at checkout. The test—run by Lawson, HashPort, KDDI and Canal Payment Service—marks the first direct connection between stablecoin rails and retail POS systems in Japan rather than reliance on separate crypto apps.
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If you build payment processing or wallet infrastructure in Japan, you've just seen your first live retail deployment path open. Lawson is not testing whether stablecoins work—it's stress-testing checkout speed, staff friction and wallet usability against cash and QR-code wallets that already own the counter.
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