ウエスタンユニオンジャパン (Western Union Japan)

Wiki route

This entry sits under payment-firms INDEX (its domain route). Read it against SBI Remit and Travelex Japan for peer / contrast (cross-border remittance / money-movement), and against the FSA plus the funds-transfer vs prepaid boundary for the supervisory / system boundary.

TL;DR

Western Union Japan Co., Ltd. is the Western Union group’s Japan funds-transfer operator (funds-transfer operator under the Payment Services Act; Director-General of the Kanto Local Finance Bureau 第00039号, registration 平成27年8月18日). Its head office is in Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo. It is a representative example of cash-pickup / agent-network remittance, providing international remittance for migrant, travel, and cross-border household flows.

1. License / group boundary

The following table is scoped to public primary sources (westernunion.com, fsa.go.jp). It restates licence / structure / product boundaries from those materials and does not invent market share, ranking, or unstated numerical claims. ^↗

2. Operating model

• Provides international remittance for migrant, travel, and cross-border household flows.
• It differs from app-first fintechs in that agent / cash-pickup infrastructure is at the center.
• A comparator for SBI Remit, Travelex, Wise, and PayPal.

3. Why this page matters

Western Union’s global brand is familiar, but what governs the actual service boundary is the Japanese entity and local terms. It pins down an example of a foreign parent’s Japanese subsidiary operating agent-network remittance under a funds-transfer license.

Related

• payment-firms INDEX
• SBI Remit
• Travelex Japan
• Wise Payments Japan
• funds-transfer vs prepaid boundary
• FinWiki index

Sources

• Western Union Japan send-money page: https://www.westernunion.com/jp/en/register-and-send-money.html
• Western Union Japan terms (Japanese): https://www.westernunion.com/content/dam/wu/APAC/other/pdf/WU-terms-conditions-Japan-jp.pdf
• FSA funds-transfer service provider list (shikin_idou.pdf): https://www.fsa.go.jp/menkyo/menkyoj/shikin_idou.pdf

[!info] Verification status confidence: likely. The funds-transfer business (Director-General of the Kanto Local Finance Bureau 第00039号, registration 2015-08 ), the Western Union group, and the Toranomon location are public facts.