{"id":21997,"date":"2020-08-24T13:54:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T04:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/24\/japan-running-out-of-credit-card-numbers-amid-online-shopping-boom"},"modified":"2020-08-24T13:54:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T04:54:20","slug":"japan-running-out-of-credit-card-numbers-amid-online-shopping-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21997","title":{"rendered":"Japan running out of credit card numbers amid online shopping boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Covid and a campaign to encourage cashless payments prompts credit card companies to consider adding 17th digit <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> is running out of credit card numbers amid a surge in online shopping during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s credit card companies are struggling to come up with original 16-digit numbers as consumers eschew regular shop visits and opt for plastic over hard cash, the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/24\/japan-running-out-of-credit-card-numbers-amid-online-shopping-boom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid and a campaign to encourage cashless payments prompts credit card companies to consider adding 17th digit Japan is running out of credit card numbers amid a surge in online shopping during the coronavirus pandemic.The country\u2019s credit card compan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21998,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21997\/revisions\/21998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}