Business Aug 25, 2018
The government asks 20 companies to staff a panel that will brainstorm ideas to help Japan catch up to its rivals in the new aviation race.
Business / Tech Apr 24, 2018
Yamato and DeNA test autonomous delivery system in Japan
by Kazuaki Nagata
On Tuesday, Yamato Transport Co. and DeNA Co. tested an autonomous vehicle delivery service to gauge the potential of self-driving technology in the field of logistics. The two Tokyo-based companies conducted the experiment in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, in which an electric car navigated through a ...
Business / Corporate May 20, 2017
Parcel delivery service Yamato set to hike delivery rates from Oct. 1
Yamato Holdings Co., the nation's leading door-to-door parcel delivery provider, has announced that it will increase basic shipping fees for its door-to-door parcel delivery service from Oct. 1. It will be Yamato's first rate hike in 27 years in a move triggered by a serious ...
Books / Reviews Apr 19, 2014
In postwar Japan, a U.S. Army intelligence officer is found dead in his Tokyo apartment with a bullet in his skull. Military policemen declare it to be a suicide but CIA agent Ralph Carnaby and his Japanese-American sidekick, Dan Morita, uncover evidence that suggests ...
Business / Corporate Nov 29, 2013
About 40 percent of Yamato's 3,924 courier service bases failed to follow the company's procedure for managing the temperature of packages that need to be kept refrigerated or frozen, many of them during the busy summer season. The company released the outcome of an in-house ...