Tag: Japan

3rd, 4th class postal rates to survive in Japan

Posted by | Apr 18, 2002 | |

The postal ministry will retain third- and fourth-class mail services when the new Japan Postal Corp. takes charge of the postal system next April
The decision represents a reversal in ministry policy, following the recommendation in December by a special research committee that third- and fourth-class delivery services be reduced or scrapped. The committee reasoned such a move would allow a new corporation a play a part in the postal system’s managementThe ministry was ready to follow suit by discontinuing the discount rates, but faced strong opposition from organizations for the disabled.

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Koizumi orders mail bills to be submitted

Posted by | Apr 18, 2002 | |

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Thursday he has instructed posts minister Toranosuke Katayama to submit four bills related to postal deregulation to the Diet before the Golden Week holidays from late April.
In making the instruction, Koizumi is apparently pressuring the Liberal Democratic Party’s policy-making panel on postal services, which is strongly opposed to submitting the bills simultaneously.

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Japanese LDP panel to put lower priority on mail privatization bill

Posted by | Apr 15, 2002 | |

A Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) panel discussing postal deregulation agreed at a meeting Wednesday to place lower priority on a bill allowing private firms to enter mail services and to focus on a bill for a new public entity to take over state-run postal services.
The move goes against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, an advocate of privatization of postal services, who had been eyeing discussions to be held simultaneously on both bills for submission to the Diet by late April.

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Mail deregulation bills to go to Diet by late April

Posted by | Apr 14, 2002 | |

Posts minister Toranosuke Katayama said Sunday the government will overcome opposition from some ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmakers and submit to the Diet by the end of April two bills aimed at opening up mail services to the private sector in 2003.
“LDP members always hold heated debates but they will unite in the end,” said Katayama, minister of public management, home affairs, posts and telecommunications.

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Koizumi gives up on lifting legal ban on post privatization

Posted by | Apr 10, 2002 | |

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has given up on eliminating a legal clause banning the privatization of the new public corporation slated to take over the government-run postal services in 2003, posts minister Toranosuke Katayama said Tuesday.
Koizumi, a strong advocate of the privatization of postal services, recently informed the ministry that he now feels “it doesn’t matter if the clause exists or not,” Katayama said.
The law was passed by the Diet in June 1998 to reorganize the then 22 national government offices into 13 entities.

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