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Japan Post claims tie-up with Lawson not violating antimonopoly law

Posted by | Oct 21, 2004 | |

Japan Post claimed at a court hearing Thursday its tie-up with convenience store operator Lawson Inc. in the parcel delivery business does not constitute dumping that violates Japan’s Antimonopoly Law. The public corporation demanded at the first hearing in a suit filed by Yamato Transport Co. that the Tokyo District Court reject the courier’s demand for a halt to the alliance between Japan Post and Lawson. Yamato filed the lawsuit against Japan Post in late September, maintaining that the state-backed entity’s parcel delivery business expansion through Lawson’s nationwide network would be “unfair” under the Antimonopoly Law as long as it receives preferential treatment in taxation and other areas.

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Japan Post set to battle Yamato Transport in court

Posted by | Oct 20, 2004 | |

Japan Post President Masaharu Ikuta criticized Wednesday the move by Yamato Transport Co. filing a lawsuit to halt the state-backed entity’s tie-up with convenience store operator Lawson Inc. in handling parcels, indicating that the entity will contest the issue in court. “Though consumers are demanding better-service competition, the essence of Yamato’s complaint is aimed at preserving its vested interest in the market,” Ikuta said at a press conference. On Sept. 28, parcel delivery service provider Yamato Transport filed the lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court against Japan Post, claiming that Japan Post’s parcel delivery business expansion through Lawson’s nationwide network would be “unfair” under the Antimonopoly Law as long as the entity receives preferential treatment in taxation and other areas.

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US Urges Japan to Set Up Independent Body on Postal Privatization

Posted by | Oct 15, 2004 | |

The United States on Thursday called on Japan to create an independent committee to ensure fair competition between Japan Post and private companies.
In a meeting to discuss the countries’ regulatory reform and competition policy, the United States urged Japan to “establish a truly level playing field” with private companies in the process of privatizing Japan Post.
The US government called on Japan to prohibit the privatized postal financial institutions from launching new insurance and lending services until equal competitive conditions are established. Japan was urged to set up the independent committee to ensure that the equal conditions are maintained throughout the privatization process.

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Koizumi reiterates Japanese postal reform

Posted by | Oct 13, 2004 | |

Japan’s prime minister opened the extraordinary Diet session Tuesday with a promise to push forward structural reforms, especially with postal services.

Junichiro Koizumi also stressed the government’s desire to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and repeated his resolve to deal with the realignment of U.S. forces in Japan and settle the abduction and other issues with North Korea.

But he did not elaborate his plans to improve the pension system, the most vital election issue in July, Asahi Shimbun reported Wednesday.

Koizumi said he would submit bills to the Diet to facilitate privatization of the postal service by April 2007.

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Few people in Japan can understand Postal Privatisation

Posted by | Oct 12, 2004 | |

Few people in Japan can quite understand Junichiro Koizumi’s obsession with privatising the post office.

Mr Koizumi is not listening. After naming Heizo Takenaka, his most trusted policy general, as minister in charge of postal reform, the prime minister declared in his weekly email diary: “The new cabinet could be dubbed the ‘Postal Privatisation Implementation Cabinet’.” Advisers say he is making postal privatisation, due to begin in April 2007, several months after he is due to step down, the centrepiece of his final two years in office.

Why is Mr Koizumi investing so much political capital in this? The answer is that the post office – an enormous institution once run by the prime minister’s grandfather, Matajiro, and which employs one in three of all public servants – has become a symbol of all that is wrong with Japan for Mr Koizumi.

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