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JR East is targeting 39% increase in tap-to-pay card usage The train operator, known as JR East, wants to help break the country's attachment to banknotes and coins by getting more and more people to use its Suica cards for uses beyond transportation. JR East is seeking to expand its e-money system 39 percent to as many as 8 million transactions a day by 2020, according to Hajime Yamada, head of the company's Suica business. [Extracted from the article]