Japan's logistics giant will pay contractors in stablecoins — the payout era just went corporate
Nikkei reported on July 20, 2026 that AZ-COM Maruwa Holdings — the $1.4B Tokyo-listed logistics group that delivers for Amazon Japan — plans to pay roughly 2,300 subcontractors and truck drivers in JPYC, Japan's regulated yen stablecoin, and is weighing a ¥1 billion investment in its issuer. It's the first large-scale corporate stablecoin rollout in Japan's day-to-day operations — and it's not a checkout story, it's a payout story. Here's why a logistics giant picked stablecoin rails to pay its contractor fleet, and how any business can pay contractors in stablecoins today, non-custodially, with mass payouts.