This could potentially be great news, a real breakthrough into mainstream adoption in Japan at least. I'm not going to get my hopes up but fingers crossed that this brings us a boost in the price.
I'm seeing great dedication from all the Japanese industries towards Bitcoin. They're trying to adopt the technology in an exceptional manner. They are the tech giant and it's a great news for all of us. If every country starts adopting like Japan then everyone will understand the true power of Bitcoins in the near future.
unfortunately in the near future we will be still stalling with the scaling and HF debate.
Eth and Litecoin could take the place of Bitcoin if its evolution will continue to be extremely slowly (for today's standards)