Japanese Retailers begin accepting Bitcoin
So the Japanese begin accepting Bitcoin payments at checkout in retail stores.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbNG66nQdqA
Now the problem with this is, the network takes many (average of 43 says one site) minutes to confirm the transfer, so you can theoretically double-spend your coins.
Newer cryptocurrencies like DASH https://www.dash.org/ solve this problem with a masternode network, which confirms the transaction in seconds (about 3 sec in my test).
Goes to show what a high-trust, homogeneous society like japan can achieve without secure infrastructure.