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Japan Post’s Ikuta raps Yamato over ending Lawson partnership

Posted by | Aug 27, 2004 | |

Japan Post President Masaharu Ikuta criticized Yamato Transport Co. on Friday for terminating its partnership with Lawson Inc. from November, insisting the decision deprives customers of choices.

“I am surprised and very perplexed at Yamato’s withdrawal. We should have engaged in a competition to give customers opportunities to choose” between the two entities, Ikuta told the Japan National Press Club.

Yamato, Japan’s largest door-to-door parcel delivery service company, decided to end its business alliance with Lawson when the current contract expires after the convenience store operator said last week it will begin handling Japan Post parcels at its 7,850 outlets nationwide in mid-November.

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Japanese Koizumi says postal privatisation is ‘done deal’

Posted by | Aug 24, 2004 | |

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi expressed strong dissatisfaction Tuesday over continued opposition within his own Liberal Democratic Party to privatising postal services, saying the privatisation is “a done deal.”

“I want you to stop holding discussions that lag (the actual situation surrounding postal privatisation),” Koizumi said during a meeting of LDP executive members, according to meeting participants.

“If it’s impossible to reach a consensus in the party, I will have to make a decision,” the premier was quoted as saying, expressing determination to finalise a government plan on postal privatization regardless of opposition from within the party.

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Japanese Takenaka aware of possible delay in full postal privatisation

Posted by | Aug 22, 2004 | |

Economic and fiscal policy minister Heizo Takenaka on Sunday indicated he understands the need for a possible delay in dividing postal services into several entities by 2007 when the privatisation process starts.

He made the comments on a TV Asahi news program as he referred to the concerns raised by Japan Post and the posts ministry that it is difficult to start the privatisation process with fully divided entities due to computer system-related problems.

Japan Post, created in April 2003 as a government-backed corporation, and the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications insist that a quasi-governmental corporation handle the planned four business areas for a while.

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U.S. backs Japan’s draft postal privatisation guideline

Posted by | Aug 20, 2004 | |

The United States on Friday threw support behind Japan’s draft guideline in privatizing the nation’s postal services, but repeated its request for a “level playing field” between a privatized postal insurance entity and private insurers, Japanese government officials said. During one-day bilateral insurance talks, the U.S. delegation hailed Japan’s adoption of the draft guideline on Aug. 6, saying it marked a “forward-looking step” toward the privatization of Japan’s postal services, the officials said. Japan spent considerable time explaining the latest developments and background to its plan to privatize Japan Post, including the compilation of the guideline, and the U.S. side appeared to gain a deeper understanding of the issue, the officials said. The U.S. officials repeated calls on Japan to apply the same regulations to the life insurance service run by Japan Post as it does to its private-sector competitors, including foreign ones, when it is privatized.

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Japan Post changes to make it big rival to private delivery companies

Posted by | Aug 20, 2004 | |

Japan Post will soon introduce changes to its package delivery services which will make it a tough, new rival to private parcel delivery companies like Yamato Transport Co Ltd, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported.

The mass circulation Japanese daily said Japan Post will begin in October delivering gulf clubs, skis, suitcases and other items which it previously has not accepted.

Currently the national postal system will not accept parcels that weigh more than 30 kg and whose combined width, height and depth exceeds 1.7 meters.

The report said Japan Post is also eyeing cutting its ‘Yu-Pack’ delivery rates to less than the amount charged by Yamato Transport, the nation’s largest door-to-door parcel delivery company, for similarly-sized packages.

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