SoftBank and Yahoo Japan launch PayPay smartphone payment system
A group picture shows: First Line from L to R - Kentaro Kawabe president of Yahoo Japan Corp., Ichiro Nakayama president and CEO of PayPay Corp., Takashi Sawada president of Japan's convenience store FamilyMart and Jun Shimba representative director and COO of SoftBank Corp., posing for the cameras with other guests during a news conference to announce the new smartphone payment service ''PayPay'' on November 22, 2018, Tokyo, Japan. PayPay is a smartphone payment service using barcodes (QR codes) supported by SoftBank, Yahoo Japan and Paytm, that can be used in Japanese stores including Bic Camera, Yamada Denki and Family Mart. (Photo by Rodrigo Reyes Marin/AFLO)