Japan Post Service Co., Ltd. , or 日本郵便, is a Japanese post, logistics and courier headquartered in Tokyo, previously the Japan government-owned mail monopoly.
Japan Post mailbox
Japan Post's car (Daihatsu Hijet)
Tokyo [toːkʲoː], English: /ˈtoʊki.oʊ/; officially Tokyo Metropolis , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of the world. It is the seat of the Japanese... government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family. Tokyo is in the Kantō region on the southeastern side of the main island Honshu and includes the Izu Islands and Ogasawara Islands. Tokyo Metropolis was formed in 1943 from the merger of the former Tokyo Prefecture and the city of Tokyo . The Tokyo Metropolitan government administers the 23 special wards of Tokyo , which cover the area that was the city of Tokyo, as well as 39 municipalities in the western part of the prefecture and the two outlying island chains. The population of the special wards is over 8 million people, with the total population of the prefecture exceeding 13 million.more
Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. is a Japanese state-owned enterprise in Japan that deals with mail delivery and financial services. Its headquarters is located in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo. There were plans to fully privatise the agency but these have been put on hold. The organisation was ranked #9 in the Fortune Global 500 of 2011, having been ranked #6 the previous year. The company was founded on 23 January 2006, although it was not until... October 2007 that it took over the functions of Japan Post.more