Archive for May, 2005
Sunday, May 29th, 2005
Today my friend and my teacher Mr.Shiotsu from Shiotsu Autotrade who taught me the basics of car exporting business came to my office. We had many fruitful discussions about the used car export business.
As a matter of fact ,my company’s staff Raj (Indian computer genius software professional )made several home pages. My used car exporting network incudes Mitz trading Japan (Mr. Mituhashi my best friend), Hashimoto Trading (Mr. Hashimoto who is a very clever person). Their home page’s are by also made by Raj. They are very close friends with me. (more…)
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
I went to Kyushu in Japan last weekend. I went there to participate in the squash competition. Kyushu also happens to be my home town and it gives me a chance to visit my father’s grave too. Kyushu is far from Tokyo – it takes about 1 hour 45 minutes by air plane. If you happen to come to Tokyo in my office and if you love squash, I’d definitely invite you play squash with me.
Tokyo’s real estate is the one of the most expensive all over the world. Around my house (near Shinjuku) real estate price is about 5,600 USD per one square meter. But in my home town Kyushu, the price is about 140 USD per one square meter (Ooita prefecture). I think country side is better environment for the kids to grow than Tokyo. However if I would live there I would lose my job. So the question is ‘to be or not to be’ !! You can see picture of my home in Kyushu here. (more…)
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Friday, May 20th, 2005
Today we received a call from a customer in South Africa. He wanted to bid for auction but he was skeptical of sending the deposit needed for bidding to our bank account. Well, such doubts are natural which could come to our prospective customers’ mind. So I need to share here about our various memberships.
We are a registered member of prestigious institutions such as JUMVEA (Japan Used Motor Vehicle Exporter Association), Japan chamber of commerce, and various auction houses such as USS, CAA etc. (more…)
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Thursday, May 19th, 2005
It’s getting hot here in Tokyo and in recent years heat in Tokyo is abnormal. Perhaps, the sultriness equals tropical countries like Thailand and the Philippines. Today’s temperature was 28 degrees.
The most farthest used car auction house in the north of Japan is in Sapporo, Hokkaido and the farthest one in the south is in Fukuoka.
Though Japan is a small country, the labor costs here are the highest in the world. Therefore, costs of transporting a car by land within Japan is considerably high. (more…)
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
We have begun translation of our homepages and other promotional materials into Russian now. Our Russian staff Zoya is a clever woman and she translates with surprising speed.Russia has now outnumbered New Zealand in the imports of cars from Japan. So we will try to do our best to satisfy Russian customers.Today I went to JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization). JETRO is organizing a trade fair for exihibiting Japanese products in Saudi Arabia this November. (more…)
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Sunday, May 8th, 2005
I’m back from my business trip to Russia.Well, overall the trip was fruitful, but I had some problems. First one was due to the fact I that I was not able to speak or understand Russian, which leads to a communication barrier. Russians don’t understand English much, and my only mode of communication was through one of my Russian friends.
An unpleasant experience I faced was I was taken by the police in their car while I was waiting for a taxi. I was questioned with full body and baggage check and released. But when I returned to my hotel room I discovered that the police had stolen my cash in the bag while they searched my baggage. (more…)
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Sunday, May 1st, 2005
Today I’ll share with you one incidence which was a mistake on our part.
One of our customers from a Caribbean country placed an order for a car with us. He had transferred part of the money to our bank account. Trusting that he will send the remaining money I went ahead and shipped the car to St. Lucia. I however did not send him the bill of loading. I was planning to send it to the customer only after getting the full payment. However the payment did not arrive from the customer. So I decided to stop the shipment at the port of Jamaica and negotiated with a shipment company in Jamaica to ship the car back to Japan. It was not possible for us to selll the car to any other customer in Jamaica because of the regulations regarding year of manufacturing. (more…)
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