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New postal system gives chance to rethink investment choices.
Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan)
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October 01, 2007 |
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Byline: Shinya Ajima
Oct. 1--TOKYO -- Will there be any changes in service at post offices across Japan under the just-started process of privatizing the state-run postal system over a 10-year period?
There may be few big changes in the initial stage. But Japanese individual investors will at least have to rethink where they should put their money as the privatization has deprived postal savings of the myth of safety backed by the government, analysts say.
Japan Post, the public postal service company, was split into four business firms under a holding firm Monday as the first step in the privatization process. The four units are in charge of ...
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