Tag: Japan

Japan Post Competitors to Seize Market Share

Posted by | Aug 8, 2002 | |

A potentially profitable regulatory change [Japan] has landed on the doorstep of parcel delivery companies. And Yamato Transport Co. is wasting no time in getting the wrapping off its new business plans. The nation’s largest private parcel delivery service and some of its rivals plan to expand their home delivery of unsolicited direct mail, magazines and catalogs. These moves are a response to the government’s recent decision to relax regulations governing the sort of mail the private sector is permitted to handle. Posts minister Toranosuke Katayama opened the door for private delivery companies to snare a bigger share of the fast-growing market on July 4, when he told a Diet committee that certain kinds of direct mail will no longer be regarded as ‘personal letters.’

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Panel fails to back Koizumi on postal privatization

Posted by | Aug 7, 2002 | |

A key report on the privatization of the state-run postal services seems set to disappoint Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
Koizumi, a big proponent of privatization, had hoped for strong backing from the report, which is due out as early as the end of this month.
Instead, Naoki Tanaka, who chairs the advisory panel looking into the issue, said the report will only set a range of options for privatizing mail delivery and postal savings and life insurance services.
“Our role is to offer a vision for privatization, and at the same time present the pros and cons (of each proposal),” Tanaka told a news conference that followed the panel’s meeting on Monday.
The panel is understood to be deeply divided over how to privatize the services after a new postal public corporation goes into operation next April.

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Parcel firms expand direct mail services

Posted by | Aug 6, 2002 | |

A potentially profitable regulatory change has landed on the doorstep of parcel delivery companies. And Yamato Transport Co. is wasting no time in getting the wrapping off its new business plans.
The nation’s largest private parcel delivery service and some of its rivals plan to expand their home delivery of unsolicited direct mail, magazines and catalogs.
These moves are a response to the government’s recent decision to relax regulations governing the sort of mail the private sector is permitted to handle.
Posts minister Toranosuke Katayama opened the door for private delivery companies to snare a bigger share of the fast-growing market on July 4, when he told a Diet committee that certain kinds of direct mail will no longer be regarded as “personal letters.” Previously, such letters, which include direct mail and items like credit cards, could only be delivered by the state-operated postal system.

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Japanese Koizumi's phoney reforms

Posted by | Jul 31, 2002 | |

Junichiro Koizumi’s recent rise in popularity has attracted much attention but the Japanese prime minister’s poll numbers are irrelevant to the prospects for reform in Japan. Indeed, no prime minister from the Liberal Democratic party can fundamentally change Japan because reforms such as privatising the postal service and cleaning up Japan’s banking sector would ravage the LDP’s power base.

Japan is unlikely to regain its economic predominance while the LDP is in power, while the public remain disengaged from politics and without a true outsider emerging as a leader.

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Diet passes bills enabling private postal delivery

Posted by | Jul 29, 2002 | |

The Diet on Wednesday enacted a set of bills to turn the Postal Services Agency into a state-run corporation and allow private firms to enter the mail delivery business.
The bills cleared the House of Councillors at a plenary session with the backing of the three ruling coalition parties — the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), New Komeito and New Conservative Party — and some other parties.
They had cleared the House of Representatives on July 9, and with the day’s passage through the upper house, they will take effect next April 1.

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