Reprivatisation of bank lending should proceed naturally as commercial banks offer positive nominal interest rates and bid funds away from the postal saving system.

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Professor Taniuchi is bold in re-raising postal insurance and saving system privatization as both a symbolic and substantively important issue.

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The Postal Service, however, says there is broad support for the cost-saving move.

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