Tourists in Japan to use fingerprints as 'currency' instead of cash

Tourists in Japan to use fingerprints as 'currency' instead of cash
Visitors to Japan may soon be able to forget the hassle of having to change money – with the launch of a new system enabling fingerprints to be used as currency. The system, which will launch this summer, aims to make shopping and checking into hotels …
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When You Accidentally Pull Off a Chun-Li Cosplay
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Meet the woman who makes fake fingers for Japan's reformed gangsters
They are members of the yakuza – Japan's vast network of organised gangs – who are desperate to leave behind their lives of crime. But for those who have transgressed – by mishandling money, failing to repay a debt, or simply offending their boss …
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