Koizumi to give top postal job to private-sector executive

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi agreed Tuesday to appoint someone from the private sector to head a new public corporation to be established next April to run the nation’s postal services, posts and telecommunications minister Toranosuke Katayama said.
Katayama, who heads the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications, said he discussed potential candidates for the top postal job with Koizumi at the prime minister’s office Tuesday afternoon.