
TOKYO: Amazon Japan G.K. plans to add 18 delivery stations in Japan by October this year to strengthen its logistics networks, company officials have said.
The number of Amazon Japan’s domestic logistics centers will rise to 45 from some 30 at present. The expanded networks will enable next-day delivery in major cities in all of the country’s 47 prefectures, except for the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, the officials said Tuesday.
The Japanese unit of U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. will open its first logistics center in 10 Japanese prefectures–Aomori, Iwate, Akita, Nagano, Kagawa, Tokushima, Ehime, Kochi, Kumamoto and Okinawa.
The new delivery stations will create more than 5,000 jobs, according to the officials.
JIJI Press