Apple Pay on Japanese Apple Watch

Hi there,

last year I purchased an Apple Watch Series 3 GPS + Cellular during my vacation in Japan. As I read before, the LTE bands in this version are compatible to my home countrys’ (Germany).

Does the same apply for the NFC chip & Apple Pay? I heard that the global version contains a NFC-F chip whilst the Japanese version has a FeliCa chip which would not work outside Japan. Recently there were news that the global version with NFC-F can now be used also in Japan, does this work vice versa?

Thanks for a quick reply.

Daniel