Politics & Diplomacy
Hashimoto to retract sex suggestion for U.S. military
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto aims to retract his remark that U.S. servicemen in Okinawa should use the local adult entertainment industry to avoid committing sex crimes.
National | POSTAL REFORM ROLLBACK Apr 15, 2010
Reversal on deposit limit a major gamble for DPJ
by Alex Martin
The Cabinet’s recent decision to accept a plan to double the ceiling on postal savings accounts to ¥20 million, as proposed by postal reform minister Shizuka Kamei, marks a drastic policy shift for the Democratic Party of Japan, which in the past argued the ...
National | POSTAL REFORM ROLLBACK Apr 15, 2010
Chronology of privatization
April 2001 — Junichiro Koizumi wins the LDP presidential race and becomes the nations’s 87th prime minister with privatizing postal services as his main goal. May 2001 — Koizumi, in his first Diet address, states that postal privatization should be considered once Japan Post ...
National | POSTAL REFORM ROLLBACK Apr 15, 2010
Postal privatization retreat assailed by finance sector
by Hiroko Nakata
The decision by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and his Cabinet to roll back postal privatization has infuriated private financial institutions that assume there won’t be a level playing field if the government keeps its stake in Japan Post’s savings and insurance units. The government ...