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UPS granted air rights to expand service to Japan

Posted by | Sep 13, 2007 | |

The U.S. Departments of State and Transportation today reached an agreement that will allow UPS and other air carriers to expand air operations to and from Japan.
The agreement provides UPS the authority to operate six daily flights between the U.S. and Nagoya, Japan, in addition to its daily service to Tokyo and Osaka. Nagoya, the fourth largest city in Japan, offers UPS significant opportunities to continue expanding its business in Asia. In addition, UPS will be able to connect these flights to its new air hub in Shanghai, China.
UPS has operated in Japan since 1987 and transitioned to a wholly owned international express delivery operation in 2004. The company’s operations cover 15 metropolitan areas, offering express delivery, customs brokerage and supply chain management services. UPS currently offers 47 weekly flights to and from Tokyo and Osaka.
Japan is one of the more than 40 countries and territories UPS serves in Asia. The company operates air hubs in Taipei, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Philippines and will formally open its hub in Shanghai in 2008.

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Preparing for Postal Privatization: Post Offices in Japan

Posted by | Sep 13, 2007 | |

As the clock ticks toward the start of its 10-year privatization process, Japan Post is struggling to keep its nationwide post office network from shrinking, particularly in rural regions where services are heavily dependent on individuals and other parties that serve as local agents. Postal Agencies Decrease to 30-Year Low Japan Post’s network comprises post offices and local postal agencies run mainly by commissioned individuals, agricultural and other credit cooperatives, and municipalities.

Agencies account for about one-fifth of Japan Post’s network, which had a total of 24,525 offices and agencies at the end of July.

Many agencies are located in under populated rural regions, and a number of them have been temporarily closed as these regions face steep falls in population.

In May this year, the number of postal agencies, excluding such suspended ones, fell below 4,000 for the first time in 30 years in a protracted downtrend that started in 1995.

The biggest contributor to the recent decrease has been municipalities. The number of agencies runs by municipalities more than halved to 164 from 349 in the same 12 months.

Japan Post is increasing efforts to keep postal agencies from falling in number. In January, the corporation raised fees paid to agents.

Backed by the fee hike, the number of postal agencies that resumed operations after temporary shutdowns totaled 93 in the four months through July, a 3.5-fold jump over the same period last year.

Despite the sharp rise, however, the number of resumed agencies remains comparatively small. The privatized post office network management company still faces the task of ensuring stable operations for the nationwide system.

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Japan: Postal privatization blueprint approved

Posted by | Sep 12, 2007 | |

The government has given the green light to a blueprint submitted earlier this year by Japan Post Corp. for privatizing postal services.

Monday’s approval was the government’s final endorsement of the 10-year privatization process beginning Oct. 1, when postal services will be split into four stock firms — savings, insurance, mail and over-the-counter services — under Japan Post, which will turn into their holding company.

The blueprint, submitted to the government in late April, includes the list of assets and employees Japan Post will take over from the public postal corporation that currently runs postal operations.

The blueprint outlines some new businesses planned for the privatized entities. Among them is letting the postal savings bank act as a sales agent for regional banks for their housing-loan products.

The bank and life insurance industries have voiced concerns about the postal financial institutions expanding operations, saying they could threaten them.

Masayuki Oku, chairman of the Japanese Bankers Association, released a statement Monday saying he regrets that the approved blueprint “fails to contain any specific plan for scaling down postal savings.”

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Japanese government gives final approval to postal privatization plan

Posted by | Sep 10, 2007 | |

The government gave green light Monday to a blueprint submitted earlier this year by Japan Post Corp. for privatizing the nation’s postal services.

It was the government’s final endorsement of the 10-year privatization process beginning on Oct. 1, when postal services will be split into four stock firms — savings, insurance, mail and over-the-counter services — under Japan Post, which will turn into their holding company.

The blueprint, submitted to the government in late April, includes the list of assets and employees Japan Post will take over from the public postal corporation that currently runs postal operations and some new enterprises planned for privatized entities.

Among such new business plans is letting the postal savings bank, which is one of the four planned entities, act as a sales agent for regional banks for their housing-loan products.

But the bank and life insurance industries voiced concerns the same day about the postal financial institutions expanding operations, saying they could threaten them.

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Japan Post Expands Salesforce Platform Deployment to 45,000 Users

Posted by | Sep 5, 2007 | |

Salesforce.com , the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, today announced Japan Post will deploy the Salesforce Platform to an additional 40,000 users. Japan Post tapped Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd. (HitachiSoft), a salesforce.com partner in Japan, to develop a custom, on-demand application for reporting customer inquiries and compliance-related issues as the world’s largest financial institution advances toward privatization in October of this year.

This latest implementation is in addition to the 5,000 users that Japan Post announced for its Salesforce Platform-based customer information management solution in April of this year, bringing the total number of Salesforce Platform subscribers at Japan Post to more than 45,000 and making it the largest on-demand platform deployment in the world. Thirty-six thousand of these subscriptions were activated on July 31, 2007.

Japan Post is one of the 35,300 companies of all sizes, industries and geographies that comprised the salesforce.com customer base as of July 31, 2007. Revenue and subscriptions will be recognized as the service is delivered.

In addition to delivering mail and selling stamps, Japan Post serves as a savings bank and provider of financial products to individuals, and is the largest financial services firm in the world in terms of asset holdings.

Japan Post’s latest custom-developed, Salesforce on-demand application enables employees stationed at 24,000 post offices across Japan to report customer and compliance-related issues to regional branches and Japan Post headquarters in Tokyo. By swiftly and securely reporting customer issues and improving business processes, Japan Post is laying the foundation for raising service levels and strengthening internal compliance as the public corporation moves toward privatization in October 2007.

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