Jasper Cheung, president of Amazon Japan, with mayor Emiko Okuyama
While the tech world is waiting eagerly to see Amazon’s new Kindle Fire, we’d like to point out that Amazon brought some good news to quake-stricken Sendai yesterday as well. The Japanese branch of the company said on Tuesday that it will be opening a call center in the city’s Aoda ward in March of next year.
Of course, that will be about one year after the tragic March 11th earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the city.
According to a report, Sendai mayor Emiko Okuyama describes the announcement as encouraging news amid the servere employement situation the area currently faces. The call center will address the company’s need to support customer inquiries, drawing on local human resources by hiring about 1000 people in order to do so.
However, Amazon also said in the press conference that its previously planned distribution center in Iwanuma, Miyagi would be cancelled.
Just a few days ago Sendai reopened its airport which had been decimated by the tsunami. This is a huge boost for the area as flights finally resumed operations.
[Via analytica1st, Photo: Mainichi]
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