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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
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 ...
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]
〒 (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 ...
A 1967 stamp of Japan featuring a painting of Mount Fuji. The story of Japan's postal system with its postage stamps and related postal history goes back centuries. The country's first modern postal service got started in 1871, with mail professionally travelling between Kyoto and Tokyo as well as the latter city and Osaka.
Tracking packages with stationary bar code reader in a warehouse sorting operation. Package tracking or package logging is the process of localizing shipping containers, mail and parcel post at different points of time during sorting, warehousing, and package delivery to verify their provenance and to predict and aid delivery.
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
The postal savings system in Japan was started in 1875 by Maejima Hisoka, who is known as "the father of the Japanese postal system." [7] [8] Before he founded the postal system as a whole four years before in 1871, Maeijima had spent time observing the postal system of the United Kingdom and was impressed by its offering of postal savings services.