Genichi Tamatsuka (L), CEO of Lawson, and Douglas Feagin, senior vice president of Ant Financial Services Group, pose with mascots in front of a Lawson convenience store in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 23, 2017. Japan's major convenience store chain Lawson and China's Ant Financial Services Group jointly announced here on Monday that customers will be able to use China's online payment solution Alipay to pay for commodities in the around 13,000 Lawson stores in Japan from Tuesday. (Xinhua/Ma Ping)