fiscal year 2020; the Japanese fiscal years start on April 1 of the stated year and end on March 31 of the following year
Special properties
as of fiscal year's end
Supplementary notes
The Postal Act defines correspondence as a document addressed to a specific recipient expressing the sender's intentions or notifying about facts, etc., like postcards or letters. Under certain circumstances, corporations may receive licenses to provide specific correspondence delivery services on which otherwise Japan Post Co., Ltd. has a monopoly.
Percentages may not total 100 due to rounding. 100 Japanese yen equal 0.74 U.S. dollars or 0.70 euros as of December 2022.
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Distribution of correspondence delivery businesses in Japan FY 2020, by asset value
As of March 31, 2021, most correspondence delivery businesses owned assets worth ** million to 100 million Japanese yen, accounting for around ** percent of providers.
Reforming its postal services in 2007, Japan introduced permits for corporations to engage in designated segments of the correspondence delivery business on which the public administration formerly had a monopoly.
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Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (Japan). (February 28, 2022). Distribution of correspondence delivery businesses in Japan in fiscal year 2020, by asset value [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Retrieved July 31, 2026, from /statistics/1275026/japan-share-correspondence-delivery-businesses-by-size/
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