With its first Asia launch, Stripe enters Japan’s tight payments race

To enter Japan’s online payments market is to embrace battle with a hydra. Outstrip one competitor, another one grows just as a quickly. Well-known players include the likes of PayPal Japan, GMO Payment Gateway, and Rakuten Checkout. Nipping on their heels is a host of fast-growing payment-focused businesses led by Spike from Metapsand Line Pay with nascent services like Pay.jp from Base (Japan’s version of Shopify) waiting in the wings. Nevertheless, Stripe, the online payments wunderkind of Silicon Valley, announced its invitation-only private beta today, with an eye to having a full launch by the end of the year.

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