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The transport ministry is considering a unified system to allow delivery workers to temporarily open condominium automatic locks to drop off parcels.
JAPAN
Sep 17, 2025
Transport ministry eyes unified unlocking system for deliveries at condos
Currently, delivery companies must make specific agreements with condominium management associations to gain access.
A Yamato Transport delivery center in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture. Japan's parcel delivery firms are expanding drop-off services amid a rise in their redelivery rate and a shortage of truck drivers.
BUSINESS
Jul 12, 2024
Availability of parcel drop-off services increasing in Japan
The services are expected to help reduce redeliveries to lessen the heavy burden on delivery vehicle drivers.
Yamato Transport drivers push carts loaded with parcels for distribution in Sapporo.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 14, 2024
Japan logistics firms work to reduce parcel redeliveries
The government aims to lower the rate of parcel redeliveries from 10% in fiscal 2022 to 6% in fiscal 2024.
Under the revised labor standards law, annual overtime will be capped at 960 hours for truck drivers and 720 hours for construction workers.
JAPAN
Mar 31, 2024
New work-style reform measures kick off in Japan
It is feared the new caps will cause shortages of workers, making it difficult to maintain services.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 10, 2020
Japan delivery services go ¡®zero contact¡¯ in age of new coronavirus
The delivery industry¡¯s apparent high-risk nature was highlighted by Sagawa Express Co.¡¯s announcement Monday that one of its drivers tested positive Sunday night for COVID-19.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 18, 2018
New ¡®smishing¡¯ scams baiting smartphone clients of Sagawa Express
Police are on alert for SMS phishing attacks in which scammers claim to be from parcel delivery firm Sagawa Express Co.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jan 21, 2017
Stress mounts as fees fall in Japan for home deliveries
The rise of online retailers has led to a race to the bottom for home delivery firms desperate to hold on to the huge amount of business these shopping sites provide.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 30, 2016
Hitachi, Sagawa Express agree to buy stakes in distribution businesses
Hitachi Ltd. and Sagawa Express Co. agreed Wednesday to buy stakes in each other¡¯s distribution businesses as competition among Japanese logistics companies intensifies.
Reader Mail
Dec 15, 2011
Arguments that invite criticism
In his Dec. 8 letter, ¡°Criticism of criticism puzzling,¡± Brett Gross wishes someone would explain the logic behind criticism of unbalanced arguments that one sometimes reads in print, with regard to my Dec. 1 letter ¡°Unbalanced article on immigrants¡± (which had criticized Hiroaki Sato¡¯s Nov. 28 article...
LIFE / Lifestyle / Japan Pulse
Dec 1, 2011
Power saving puts Christmas illuminations in a new light
While the winter setsuden will soon be in full effect, the Christmas illumination show must go on.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
By Alex K.T. Martin

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