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YAMATO

Japan Times
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Jun 24, 2017
Japan's Hamamura works three scoreless innings, earns victory on 22nd birthday against U.S.
The Japan women's national softball team defeated the United States 3-0 on Friday in the first game of a three-game exhibition series.
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BUSINESS / FOCUS
Jun 21, 2017
Delivery firms team up with convenience stores as labor shortage bites
Faced with a severe labor shortage and grappling with heavy workloads amid a surge in online shopping, courier companies are teaming up with convenience stores to distribute parcels and relieve some of the burden on drivers.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 13, 2017
Parcel giant Yamato's first price hike in 27 years shows fruits, limitations of Abenomics
By last November, Hirotaka Yokota had finally had enough.
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JAPAN
Jun 4, 2017
Hiroshima students working to re-create Yamato for virtual battleship tour
High school students in Hiroshima are using virtual reality technology to create lifelike tours of the sunken battleship Yamato this summer.
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LIFE / Lifestyle
May 27, 2017
Never forget: keeping track of belongings with technology
A Tokyo-based startup is offering a range of services to help people keep track of their belongings.
BUSINESS / Companies
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.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 3, 2017
Yamato to hire 9,000 new workers, covering payroll costs through fee hike
Leading parcel delivery provider Yamato Holdings Co. is aiming to hire about 9,200 new workers in the current year through next March to reduce overtime among delivery personnel, company sources said Wednesday.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 29, 2017
Yamato raises delivery prices by ¥140 to ¥180
Leading delivery firm Yamato hikes prices to deal with a chronic staff shortage and poor working conditions tied to the online shopping boom.
BUSINESS
Apr 26, 2017
Yamato preparing 20% delivery rate hike in September, its first rise in 27 years
Yamato Transport Co., Japan's leading door-to-door parcel delivery service provider, is making final arrangements to raise its base shipping fees by up to 20 percent in September, sources familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
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JAPAN
Apr 25, 2017
Kumamoto couple have hard time parting with son lost in earthquake
Shinobu Yamato, 49, still can't wash a pair of socks that her son, Hikaru, had left lying around before he was killed in the earthquakes that rocked Kumamoto Prefecture and its vicinity last April.
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BUSINESS
Apr 19, 2017
Amazon launches same-day delivery service for food and medicine
As delivery firms struggle to manage overwhelming numbers of parcels, e-commerce giant Amazon Japan G.K. is expanding its same-day Prime Now delivery service to include cooked meals and other items.
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JAPAN
Apr 16, 2017
Home delivery firms strain under e-commerce load
Amanda used to work part-time for major delivery firm Yamato Transport Co., helping out during Japan's busy traditional gift-sending seasons in summer and winter.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 7, 2017
Overwhelmed Yamato mulls exit from Amazon's same-day delivery service
Yamato Transport Co., Japan's leading door-to-door courier firm, is considering withdrawing from its same-day delivery service for Amazon.com Inc. to reduce the heavy workload on its drivers, sources close to the matter said Friday.
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CULTURE / Art
Apr 2, 2017
Leiji Matsumoto surfs the floating world
The work of manga artist Leiji Matsumoto mixes historical periods, themes and technologies, often in a science-fiction setting: His signature comics involve steam locomotives and reborn World War II battleships sailing among the stars. These grand flights of fancy, which have found fans around the world, become even more magical when transposed into a traditional Japanese art form, such as ukiyo-e, the "pictures of the floating world" from Japan's Edo Period (1603-1868).
EDITORIALS
Mar 28, 2017
The high cost of convenience
The problems confronting Yamato Transport Co. is a reminder that business competition based on increased convenience and low prices for customers isn't sustainable in an economy with a growing manpower shortage.
LIFE / Language
Mar 27, 2017
Yamato Transport considers hiking prices
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LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Mar 13, 2017
Let's discuss making home deliveries easier
Major courier firm Yamato Transport Co. hopes to implement measures to ease the burden on delivery drivers and improve their working conditions.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 7, 2017
Yamato to hike delivery rates for first time in 27 years
Yamato Transport Co., the nation's leading door-to-door parcel delivery provider, plans to raise its base shipping fees by the end of September for the first time in 27 years, company sources said Tuesday.
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Mar 2, 2017
Yamanaka defends bantamweight title for 12th time, moves within win of matching Gushiken record
As everyone had predicted, Carlos Carlson was no match for "God's Left."
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BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 1, 2017
Yamato Transport looks at ways to ease burdens on drivers as online purchases skyrocket
Amid its annual shunto spring wage negotiations, major courier firm Yamato Transport Co. said Wednesday it may seek to implement measures to ease burdens placed on delivery drivers to improve working conditions.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
Harajuku strives to reclaim its former glory — and surpass it
Laforet Harajuku, which celebrated its 45th anniversary last year, has been a witness to the district's evolution over the years.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Japan's May 1 intervention may have cost ¥3.66 trillion, BOJ data suggests
An electronic screen displays a graph showing Japanese yen exchange rates surging against the dollar amid signs of intervention by authorities, in Tokyo on Thursday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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