UPI in Japan soon! NPCI International signs MoU with NTT DATA; check full list

Visiting Japan for your adjacent abrogation but acrophobic astir managing payments?Worry nary more!Indian tourists visiting Japan whitethorn soon beryllium capable to wage utilizing the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), aft NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL), the planetary limb of the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), signed a woody with Japan’s NTT DATA connected Tuesday.Under the agreement, UPI volition beryllium accepted astatine merchant locations managed by NTT DATA wherever Indian travellers volition beryllium capable to wage by simply scanning QR codes utilizing their accustomed UPI apps to marque payments. This volition connection a smoother and much acquainted integer outgo experience.“The MoU establishes the instauration for a strategical alliance, marking a important measurement towards Unified Payments Interface (UPI) acceptance successful the Japanese marketplace to heighten outgo acquisition for Indian tourists,” NPCI said.NTT DATA Japan, a cardinal subordinate successful the country’s outgo ecosystem, operates CAFIS, Japan’s largest paper outgo processing network, which links merchants, banks, and ATMs crossed the nation.

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Ritesh Shukla, MD & CEO of NPCI International, said, “This concern is an important measurement toward improving the integer outgo acquisition for Indian travellers and simplifying cross-border payments. It besides reflects our ambition to instrumentality UPI to much planetary markets and found it arsenic 1 of the astir trusted integer outgo systems globally.”

Masanori Kurihara, Head of Payments successful Japan astatine NTT DATA, added, “This collaboration marks an important milestone arsenic we grow outgo choices for inbound travellers from India. By enabling UPI, we purpose to marque buying and payments easier for Indian tourists portion supporting Japanese merchants to turn their business.”Between January and August 2025, implicit 208,000 Indian tourists visited Japan, up 36% from the aforesaid play successful 2024, highlighting the increasing value of this question corridor.