The Liberal Democratic Party continued late Monday night trying to put together a set of requests for modifying the government's plan to privatize postal services by 2017 by splitting Japan Post into four units.

While top LDP executives worked desperately to get the party to give them a free hand to negotiate with the government to prevent confusion, opponents continued to put up stiff resistance to the privatization plan.

The executive members were hoping to have the party reach a conclusion by late Monday night so they could enter negotiations with the government.