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Why buy Japanese Used Cars in this recession?

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

Who doesn’t love to own a car? However, buying a new car may not be affordable to everyone. Especially during the current recession and the bad economy, many people are not even thinking of buying luxuries like a new car.

Most of these people don’t even think about used cars because of the prevalent misconception that used cars will not be of good quality and would require lot of expenses on maintaining them. However, let me tell you, the used cars from Japan are far off this notion. Japanese used cars will be as luxurious as the new ones and also will not require any special maintenance other than what a new car would need. And on top of it, you can buy a used Japanese car for almost half the price you would pay for a new car.

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Happy New Year from Japan

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

We at Best Trading, Japan wish you a Very Happy and Joyful New Year – 2009.

This week is an important holiday for most businesses in Japan. Most used car dealers in our network as well as Japanese used car auction houses also observe holiday in the first week of the new year.

Japanese people typically welcome the New Year in tradional fashion. We clean our houses and offices before the new year begins, and have traditional new year decorations made from pine, bamboo and plum trees at the entrance of homes and shops.  On the new year eve, families will get together and welcome the new year by eating soba noodles which symbolize longevity.  A visit to a temple or shrine for offering prayers is a must for every Japanese in the new year holidays. (more…)

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Japanese Used Cars for Russia

Friday, November 28th, 2008

Under Russian traffic rules, drivers must drive on the right side of the road but traffic officials generally tolerate cars with Japanese style Right Hand Drive (RHD) cars designed to run on the left hand side of the road.

Right Hand Drive Car from Japan

Right Hand Drive Car from Japan

Used cars from Japan are as popular as Left Hand Drive (LHD) cars by Russian automobile makers such as Volga.   As per the latest estimates, Russia has more than 1.5 million RHD vehicles on its roads.  In the far eastern regions of Russia, such as Vladivostok, RHD cars make up to 90% of the total.  Many drivers in this region own cars with right-hand drive imported from Japan.  This includes not only private cars, but also government vehicles, ambulances and police cars. (more…)

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Experience the Japanese Used Auto Auctions !!

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Best Trading is an authorized member of 90 auctions located all over Japan which offer over 150,000 vehicles every week. Our clients can access Japanese auction system from our website, where you can take a virtual tour of Japanese used cars offered at varioys auction houses such as the USS Auto Auction and view all the vehicles available for sale there.

Apart from participating in the online auctions, we encourage our clients to visit the high-tech  auction halls in Japan. For buyers who wish to buy used Japanese vehicles from auto auctions on  a regular basis, we encourage to visit our company office in Tokyo. We can then persoanlly accompany you to various used car auctions in Japan. It can be a valuable experience for your used car import business.
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My trip to Mumbai, India

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

We had a week long holiday in Japan because of Obon festival. Most businesses including Japanese used car auctions are on holiday this week.  So I planned to visit Thailand and India with my friend Mr. Shiotsu.

Mumbai crowded train

Crowded local train in Mumbai

It is summer here now in Japan and it is very hot and humid especially here in Tokyo.  I was surprised to see that India was much cooler than Japan at this time.  Our Indian friend Raj was kind enough to show us around in Mumbai as well as in the satellite city of New Mumbai. (more…)

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Why Buy Japanese Used Cars?

Friday, July 18th, 2008

When a person plans to buy a car, he looks for certain quality indicators like the brand image, comfort, efficiency, safety, luxury and the shape or looks of the car.

Every year, numerous models of cars are launched by different car manufacturers all over the world. It may happen that the car models available in your country are either too expensive or lack in various features such as fuel efficiency, comfort and safety. In such cases, it makes sense to import a used car from other country.

In imported used cars, Japanese used cars are the most popular. By Japanese used cars we mean that these cars were manufactured in Japan, used by Japanese owners and then made available to the secondhand car market.  (more…)

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Philippine Importer of vehicle stop buying from Japan

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

This year is very difficult for the Japanese supplier in the Philippines to export SUV or Vehicles including those small mini-truck due to most of the buyer in the Philippines specially the Subic base company and Visayas region importer stop buying from Japan, due to strict campaign of Bureau of Customs and Anti-Smuggling Car group in the Philippines. Most of the Japanese supplier in the Philippines who have some ready stock for Philippine market had a very big problem on their existing inventory specially those being ordered already but eventually result to cancellation. (more…)

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Shipping Schedules of RO/RO Ships

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Here are available RO/RO (PCC) shipping schedules from Japanese ports to major ports in the world, announced by major shipping companies:

[To New Zealand (Auckland)]
»TASMAN RESOLUTION:
18th Feb (Yokohama), 20 Feb (Osaka)¦¦9th Mar
»MAGIC WAVE V.19:
19th Feb (Osaka), 20th Feb (Nagoya)¦¦6th Mar
»KIWI BREEZE V.37:
19th Feb (Kawasaki), 21th Feb (Nagoya)¦¦6th Mar
»TRANS FUTURE 5: (more…)

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Poisoned Food Threaten People in Japan

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

These days, every Japanese TV show reports some of frozen foods sold in a lot of supermarkets in Japan are likelihood of poison. They are imported from China, one of the biggest country of food exporter in the world. The importer, a business company based Tokyo, and the exporter in China is now under investigating why it should happen and who is blamed about this affair. Fortunately, there are no the deceased so far but many poison victims who took the meat dumplings (“Gyo-za”) around Japan. Japanese news says sales of frozen food falls 40% down after 31th Jan, the day of this contamination being surfaced. (more…)

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Japanese “Entry Family Car” in BRICs

Friday, January 18th, 2008

According to Japanese major auto vehicle makers’ plans, all their production in BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) will exceed amount of production in North America in 2011.
Recently, Japanese companies cannot plan their sales management without overseas, especially developing countries like BRICs. (more…)

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