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Yamato Transport

Logo: Yamato Transport Co., Ltd., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Japanese delivery service company

The Yamato Transport Company, Ltd. (ヤマト運輸株式会社, Yamato Un'yu kabushiki gaisha; YTC) is one of Japan's largest door-to-door delivery service companies, with a market share of 41%, competing closely with Japan Post Service, Sagawa Express, and Nippon Express. Their head office is in Ginza, Tokyo.2 It employed about 191,200 people in 2022.1 It is part of Yamato Holdings.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Mar 31, 2005Founded1

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Yamato Transport HQ
Photo: Akonnchiroll, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons4

The Yamato Transport Company, Ltd. (ヤマト運輸株式会社, Yamato Un'yu kabushiki gaisha; YTC) is one of Japan's largest door-to-door delivery service companies, with a market share of 41%, competing closely with Japan Post Service, Sagawa Express, and Nippon Express. Their head office is in Ginza, Tokyo. The company's trademarked term for their express door-to-door delivery service, TA-Q-BIN (宅急便, takkyūbin) was used, with permission, in the original Japanese title of Kiki's Delivery Service (魔女の宅急便, Majo no Takkyūbin; lit. 'Witch's Express Home Delivery') (in which Yamato is a co-producer) instead of the generic term takuhaibin (宅配便). Takkyūbin is sometimes used in Japan as a generic term for all express home delivery services, but the company defends the trademark to avoid it becoming genericized.2

Corporate structure

Yamato Transport is part of a group headed by Yamato Holdings. 10 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Yamato Transport reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Owners

Also owns

From Wikidata.1

Employees over time

  • 2022191,1721

Timeline

  1. Mar 31, 2005Founded Founded1

Sources

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