Tag: Japan

Privatization of mailing service eyed in step-by-step manner (Japan)

Posted by | Oct 28, 2001 | |

TOKYO, Oct. 28 (Kyodo) _ The Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications plans to open the mailing service to private businesses in a step-by-step manner in fiscal 2003 when a new public entity is to take over the state-run postal service, ministry officials said Sunday.

At present, the Postal Services Agency monopolizes the mailing service, drawing strong calls from parcel delivery firms and other businesses to open the service to the private sector.

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Govt to abolish funds for special post offcies (Japan)

Posted by | Oct 27, 2001 | |

Govt to abolish funds for special post offices Yomiuri The government announced Friday it would abolish the practice of providing general promotional funds, or watakiri, to about 19,000 government-designated special post offices, beginning in fiscal 2002.

The announcement was made by Public Management Minister Toranosuke Katayama after a Cabinet meeting. Earlier he had said that the practice would be discontinued in fiscal 2003.

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Japan: Challenges and Reform

Posted by | Oct 10, 2001 | |

“Redefining the Post Business: Challenges and Reform Efforts by Japan Post,” by Katsuyuki Okada, Director-General, Postal Department, Postal Services Agency, Japan, is a presentation from Post-Expo 2001 in Geneva.

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Japan Post Draws Up Investment Guidelines

Posted by | Oct 7, 2001 | |

The Posts Ministry [Japan] aims to allow a public corporation to be set up in 2003 to take over its postal operations, [and] to entrust the management of postal savings and insurance funds to domestic and foreign investment advisory firms, ministry sources said, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported in its Monday edition.

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Postal Officials must obey the letter of the law (Japan Post)

Posted by | Oct 4, 2001 | |

Postal officials must obey the letter of the law Takeshi Esaki Yomiuri Kenji Koso, a Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Councillors, tendered his resignation on Sept. 25, only two months after his July election to the upper house, taking responsibility for a vote-soliciting scandal involving senior officials of regional postal service bureaus.

Koso, a former postal service bureaucrat, was forced by his party to resign from the Diet after 16 senior postal officials were arrested on suspicion of conducting illegal campaigns to support his bid for the upper house. Among the 16 officials involved were the incumbent head and other senior officials of the Kinki Regional Postal Services Bureau, as well as postmasters of post offices and special post offices in the Kinki region.

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