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Japan Post Co., Ltd. (日本郵便株式会社, Nippon Yū-bin Kabushiki-gaisha), is a Japanese post, logistics and courier headquartered in Tokyo. It is part of the Japan Post Holdings group. History
〒 (郵便記号, yūbin kigō) is the service mark of Japan Post and its successor, Japan Post Holdings, the postal operator in Japan. It is also used as a Japanese postal code mark since the introduction of the latter in 1968. Historically, it was used by the Ministry of Communications (逓信省, Teishin-shō), which operated the postal ...
Japan Post ran the world's largest postal savings system and is often said to be the largest holder of personal savings in the world: with ¥224 trillion ($2.1 trillion) of household assets in its yū-cho savings accounts, and ¥126 trillion ($1.2 trillion) of household assets in its kampo life insurance services; its holdings account for 25 ...
The format recommended by Japan Post [5] is: Tokyo Central Post Office 7-2, Marunouchi 2-Chome Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8994. In this address, Tokyo is the prefecture; Chiyoda-ku is one of the special wards; Marunouchi 2-Chome is the name of the city district; and 7-2 is the city block and building number.
It also appears in 🏣 (Unicode U+1F3E3), an emoji representing a (specifically Japanese) post office, as the sign on the building. 〠 (Unicode U+3020) is a character of Japan Post. Its name is Number-kun. Japan Post released a new character, "Poston", in 1998, so Number-kun is rarely used nowadays.
At the end of 2019, the government had a 57% ownership stake in Japan Post Holdings, [24] which still owns 90% of Japan Post Bank and Japan Post Insurance. [25] [26] In April 2021, Japan Post Holdings agreed to sell part of its unprofitable Australian logistics company Toll Holdings for only 7.8 million Australian dollars. [27]
Japan Post Network Co., Ltd. (郵便局株式会社, Yū-bin Kyoku Kabushiki-gaisha), was a Japanese company which operated the post office of Japan. It was part of the Japan Post Holdings group. History
3-digit postcodes of Japan. Postal codes in Japan are 7-digit numeric codes using the format NNN-NNNN, where N is a digit. [1] The first two digits refer to one of the 47 prefectures (for example, 40 for the Yamanashi Prefecture), the next digit for one of a set of adjacent cities in the prefecture (408 for Hokuto, Yamanashi), the next two for a neighborhood, and the last for a neighborhood or ...