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Can Europe Regain “Payments Sovereignty”? The Launch of the European Network for Payments (ENP) and Implications for Japan

Can Europe Regain “Payments Sovereignty”? The Launch of the European Network for Payments (ENP) and Implications for Japan

On September 30, 2026, leading European payment providers announced the establishment of a new company, European Network for Payments (ENP). Its parti…

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Hearing of a Death, I Boil De Cecco

Hearing of a death, I boil De Cecco; looking out the window, sunlight spills over the cherry tree next door. I read on Mayumi’s blog that a close friend of hers had passed away. It…

Popnup Blog

I am customizing PopnupBlog 2 Redwood. By default, its format makes heavy use of tables and, to my taste, is hard to read. So I customized the template to remove tables as much as…

School Education

Today, the Konishi couple came over. They are senior friends from my London days. Dai Konishi teaches finance at Hitotsubashi University, but says that he has recently become very…

Drupal and Xoops

I operate about 7 sites using Xoops. This site, www.sakimura.org, is one of them. But I cannot say that I truly love Xoops. The things I dislike about it are as follows. (1) It use…

An Error on DoCoMo’s Spam-Mail Page

There is an inaccurate statement on DoCoMo’s anti-spam page, “About Spam Mail—Changing Your Email Address.” Although it says, “Note: Compliant with RFC,” it also says: If periods a…

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