The Financial Services Agency plans to allow banks to shut on weekdays by easing a regulation covering the days they can stay closed.
Since 1890, Japan has limited such days to weekends, national holidays, New Year’s Eve and the first three days of the year. But many branches have seen patronage decline as the population shrinks and online banking spreads.
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