@ 郵政公社の4機能(窓口サービス、郵便、郵便貯金、簡易保険)が有する潜在力が十分に発揮され、市場における経営の自由度の拡大を通じて良質で多様なサービスが安い料金で提供が可能になり、国民の利便性を最大限に向上させる。 A 郵政公社に対する「見えない国民負担」が最小化され、それによって利用可能となる資源を国民経済的な観点から活用することが可能になる。 B 公的部門に流れていた資金を民間部門に流し、国民の貯蓄を経済の活性化につなげることが可能になる。
A contemporary dilemma haunted by history By Ronald Dore Published: August 8 2005 20:22 | Last updated: August 8 2005 20:22
Junichiro Koizumi, Japan’s prime minister, has lost the vote on his grand scheme to privatise the country’s post office with its vast savings pool and will go to the polls. For now, the village-pump communitarian face of Japanese conservatism has won out over anti-bureaucratic, privatising radicalism. The global finance industry will have to wait a little longer to get its hands on that $3,000bn of Japanese savings.
But the snap election next month is likely to focus as much on the dire state of Japan’s relations with China and Korea as on privatisation. Here at issue is the other face of Japanese conservatism: the reluctance to feel guilty about the war. The key symbol of that reluctance has been Mr Koizumi’s visits to the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo to pay respects to Japan’s war dead. There is speculation he might open his election campaign with such a visit on the 60th anniversary of the war’s end next Monday. Opinion polls show a bare majority think it “wiser” not to go. Mr Koizumi may think bravado and talking tough to the Chinese will win more votes than wisdom.
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