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Stripe co-founder and President John Collison speaks at a company event in Tokyo on Wednesday. (Photo by Yuki Nakao)

REI NAKAFUJI

October 1, 2026 01:09 JST

TOKYO — U.S.-based Stripe is angling to dominate payments for the field of artificial intelligence agentic commerce services like Meta’s Muse, and sees major growth potential in Japan if companies can overcome consumer skepticism about the technology.