Interesting news from Japan⑦ "The Restarting of Tokyo Disneyland"

Hello, This is Takeuchi from the Shimbashi business garden.

It has already passed one month after the earthquake.

We are hearing happy news recently little by little.

In such a situation, this time's interesting news is about "The Restarting of Tokyo Disneyland".

http://www.tokyodisneyresort.co.jp/en/index.html

Disneyland that had closed due to the earthquake restarted on the 15th of this month after an interval of one month.

Tokyo Disneyland is the most popular tourist destination that is not only many students visit for school excursion but also foreigners from all over the world are visiting.

Now, Opening time is shortened compared before.

The popular Electrical Parade does not take place.

And Disney Sea which is near from Disneyland is still closed.

A lot of people hope it to be restarted completely.

However, the staff members of Disneyland ware very much relieved by the restarting.

The persons who are working in travel agencies or hotels as well.

I also have a friend who is working there.

I asked him about it.

He just said "Don't worry, we are just preparing now."

But I've been wondering if it can be restarted really.

So, now I am very happy to hear that news!

Take

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Interesting news from Japan① "Foreign remittance"

Hello I'm TAKE from the Shimbashi business garden.

Let me pick some interesting news from Japan.

"Foreign remittance" is the topic I would like to talk about this time.

As I was working on helping foreign students in my previous job, I have many experiences on foreign remittance.Foreign remittance in Japan is very troublesome on both sending side as well as receiving side.Also, remittance fee is very expensive in Japan.

One of the reason of its expensiveness is that fee is taken at Japanese local bank as well as at non Japanese bank. Furthermore, current foreign remittance system via Japanese bank itself is very safe and requires high maintenance cost.

After the new law that allows non bank to start doing business on foreign remittance is enforced in last spring in Japan, situation is changing with some of the world major money-transmitting company has been coming to Japan.

The commission of a certain world's largest money-transmitting company is just 20 to 60 percent of that of Japanese bank, and the time that takes for the remittance is just a few minutes, which is clearly quicker than the time it takes for a Japanese bank to execute foreign remittance.

It seems that Japanese domestic financial institution is also thinking about various plans to tackle this competitive situation. For example, they are trying to focus its corporate companies, or making foreign remittance service available through existing ATM machine they have.

In either way, I hope the foreign people who live in Japan will get benefit out of this competitive situation by getting better foreign remittance services.

Take

http://www.shimbashi-bg.co.jp/english/index.html

Tel: +81-3-3459-0233

E-mail; info@shimbashi-bg.jp