Toss Payments joined the government's deposit token payment infrastructure project as preferred bidder for the PG (payment gateway) role, the same consortium NH and KB joined earlier this month, now with the full participant list clearer: 9 banks, 8 PG companies, and 2 large merchants, run by the Financial Telecommunications and Clearings Institute. Toss Payments' specific job is connecting the deposit token payment network to merchants as the PG, building the integration so existing merchant payment setups can accept deposit tokens without new terminals or system rebuilds, consumers pay through bank-issued deposit token wallet apps on their end. The pitch is the same one NH and KB made: deposit tokens settle simultaneously with payment, cutting merchant settlement time from the current 1-3 days down to near-instant, with participating institutions also validating potential fee reductions and improved merchant cash flow. Toss Payments completed the project kickoff briefing with the Ministry of Science and ICT and KISA in June, and joined the joint inter-agency launch ceremony on July 22, the same event KB referenced. Detailed development work and scheduling with other participants starts this half.

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Toshihiro Nagoshi, the creator of the Yakuza series, recently appeared in a new Famitsu magazine article and was referred to simply as a game creator with no mention of Nagoshi Studio. This comes after reports that NetEase had stopped funding the studio. The project reportedly needed a lot more cash to get finished. The team was said to be looking for another $44 million to keep development going. Since then, the studio has gone quiet. It has stopped posting online, its website has gone offline, and there is still no word on what is happening with Gang of Dragon.

Frank Toscano is 62, and as of Thursday night he was at Riverside Hospital after a Hilliard officer shot him in the chest. Police say he is expected to survive. Two officers went to an apartment in the 4600 block of Lowell Lane, just off Riggins Road, at about 8 p.m. Wednesday. They had a warrant for public indecency. That case is from Sept. 11, when police say he exposed himself to an employee at a Giant Eagle on Britton Road. Hilliard sits on the west side of Columbus, in Franklin County. They asked him to take his hand out of his pocket and step forward, out of the doorway. Hilliard police say he pulled a gun from that pocket while he stepped back, then struggled with them over it after they told him, more than once, to drop it. One officer fired. That officer has been on the department four years. No officer was hurt. Chief Michael Woods has said this is the department's first officer-involved shooting in at least five years. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is investigating the shooting on its own. Police have charged him with attempted felonious assault for the struggle at the door, on top of the public indecency warrant from the store. In Ohio, public indecency is the charge for exposing yourself where someone else is likely to see it. Felonious assault is the charge for trying to cause someone serious harm, including with a deadly weapon. Those sit in the Revised Code at 2907.09 and 2903.11.