It is almost  the end of month, and I have to take care of many things before my trip to Russia. Today we prepared advertising brochures in Russian language with help of Raj and Zoya. But still we had many difficultied to get them printed because of the computer font problems.

This year, From 29th Apr to 8th May is long holiday in Japan. We call this holiday as Golden week. This custom is only followed in Japan. Are you aware of it?29th April is Green holiday (it is in the memory of former Japanese emperor’sbirthday). 30th is Saturday, First May is Sunday, 3rd is constitution celebration,4th national holiday (no meaning) 5th is for children day (Check my earlier blog on Koinobori)My friend Mr.Mituhashi (owner of Mitz Trading) visited in our Ginza office today. He has a good business with Japanese army to supply Tanks from Europe to Japan. He has a special skill in that field.Conglatuations to Mr. AD - We could buy nice Porche 928 at USS Tokyo Auction today.  I guess is GPS system working in Canada ? Now K-Line (from Yokohama to New West Minster is full booked). I must try to make advance booking for shipping in the future to avoid delays.

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Today I attended Russian language study course for the second time. I found Russian pronunciation very difficult though characters are not so difficult to read. I hope it willhelp me in my trip to Vladivostok from May 3 to 6. I also went to practise squash today. I played for about 2 hours, but it made me very tired. I am getting close to 40 now, so it takes time to recover from the tiredness.

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Today I am still working till late night because of many mails received. I also wasted my time because one of our potential buyers sent me a bank transfer statement of 1500 GBP from UK to Japan. I thought it was a fake one. I sent him my passport copy and requested him to send his passport copy, but he did not comply with that. I told him I may have to go to UK embassy to find out more about the bank statements.

We are getting ready for UK Auto auction on 21st June in SOUTHAMPTON and 22nd June in LIVERPOOL.

We bought 11 vehicles -(1)FIGARO FK10 (2)HIACE LH103V (3)PAO PK10 (4) HILUX SURF KZN130W (5) SKYLINE ECR33 (6) LEGACY BG5 (7) FIGARO FK10 ( MR2 SW20 (9) CELICA ST202 (10) LANCER CN9A (11) DELICA PD8W

I am going to go there with more than 20 Japanese used car exporters who are members of JUMVEA. I will stay in UK from 18th to 23 th June, I want to meet each of my customers in UK. Please contact me at that time by email !!

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Today Mr. Shiotsu, President of Shiotsu Auto Trade visited me in our new office. He was on his way home to Osaka from his business trip to Malaysia. We then discussed how we could ship Japanese used trucks into parts to countries which do not allow import of used vehicles. You can have a look at some ways how we shipped trucks by cutting them into manageable parts. Soon, we are planning to ship some trucks to Russia in this manner.

 

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We recently moved to a new office in Ginza, Tokyo. Here is a picture of the new office space.

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Today it was raining all day in Tokyo. It was also busy day for me; Raj also seemed to be busy, as we are making a new HP to improve our customer service.Very soon it will be the time of Golden week in Japan. One of the days is the festival of Children’s day on May 5.  In Japanese culture we decorate our houses with carp streamers called as Koinobori. Since carp is a symbol of strength because of its ability to flow agaist the stream, the koinobori is considered as somethig which brings good luck and prays for the growth of a child.  My son is now 2 years old. So I hope he grows up strong. You can see here pictures of koinobori on the top of my house.

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We are now in the process of modifying our Home Page.  Our software professional Raj is working on it. We will make the HP more user-friendly - for example, we will introduce features like membership. automatic generation of invoices system, freight calculations, selecting vehicles directly from various auction houses in Japan etc. I’ve also started taking lessons in Russian language. And I am going to Russia from 3rd to 6th May.Today I have to take care of work at home -  many things do. Now I am going to play squash; I must practice hard for competition on 20th May in Fukuoka (southern part of Japan).

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Today we had a new addition to our staff - Ms. Zoya from Russia. As we are getting many business inquiries from customers in Russia, we have hired Ms. Zoya who will first work on creating our homepage in Russian language.  I am also planning for a visit to Vladiostock in Russia next month.  This is in line with our commitment to give quality service to our customers worldwide.

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Today we moved to our new branch office in Ginza, Tokyo. Ginza is one of the best business locations in Tokyo. We had to wait for about 2 weeks to move in here because we had ordered tailor-made computers from Dell. Finally we set up the computers and internet connection today and we’re ready to go. If you happen to come to Tokyo, please drop in our Ginza office.

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I’ve decided to write my diary from today and making it open to public. I will also introduce Japanese culture apart from news about used automobile world in Japan.

Today was a very busy day and there were many visitors in our office.  There were some irritating incidences too - especially when visitors residing in Japan call trying to hide their phone number. So I made it clear to those visitors that since our phone numbers are public, we expect the same from the customers. I also spend lot of time trying to explain to the customers that the average price of cars at the auction are not decided by us. We inform the auction price to the customers because we want to be transparent to them as much as possible.We’ll soon reorganize this website for ease of operation. The job is entrusted to Mr. Raj.Thank you for hundreds of mails I received today. It kept me busy in the night.  So please understand if my reply is short or poor.

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