Yamato Transport

The Yamato Transport Company, Ltd. is one of Japan's largest door-to-door delivery service companies, with a market share of 41 percent, competing closely with Japan Post Service, Sagawa Express and Nippon Express. Its head office is in Ginza, Tokyo. The company's trademarked term for its express door-to-door delivery service, TA-Q-BIN, was used with permission in the original Japanese title of Kiki's Delivery Service instead of the generic term takuhaibin; the term takkyubin is sometimes used in Japan for all express home delivery services, but the company defends the trademark to avoid it becoming genericized.