Japan Post Bank: Current Issues and Prospects

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Optimizing Japan´s Financial Institutions -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Paving the Way to the Privatization of Public Financial Services -- 1 The Birth of Public Financial Services and What Followed-Public Financial Services and a Financial Market under Interest Rat... -- 1.1 From Early Meiji to the Post-Pacific War Period: The Age of Complementarity-Public and Private Financial Services under Go... -- 1.2 From Postwar Reconstruction to Bubble Economy: The Age of Coexistence and Coprosperity-Private Financial Services Competin... -- 1.3 From the Bursting of the Bubble Economy to the Era of Financial Deregulation: The Age of Interdependence-Bloated Public Fi... -- 1.3.1 An Age of Uncertainty, Sinking Together, or Win-Win? -- 2 Challenges Ahead and Solutions in Light of Japan´s Pre-Public Financial Services Privatization Years -- 2.1 Ways to Improve Fiscal Health Via Financial Reforms Based on Similarities in Financial Conditions Today and Wartime/Postwa... -- References -- Chapter 2: Privatization of Public Financial Services and Financial Reforms -- 1 Factors and Reasons Behind the FILP Reform, Postal Privatization, and Reform of Policy-Based Finance-Public Financial Servic... -- 1.1 Position of Public Financial Services in Japanese Financial Market -- 1.2 Causes of Public Financial Services´ Systemic Fatigue -- 1.3 Financial Liberalization -- 1.4 Postal Privatization in UK, Germany, and France -- 1.4.1 Privatization in UK -- 1.4.2 Privatization in Germany -- 1.4.3 Privatization in France -- 1.5 Postal Privatization in China -- 1.5.1 Postal Reform -- 1.5.2 Listing (Privatization) of Postal Savings Bank of China -- 1.6 Privatization of Three Public Corporations -- 1.6.1 Privatization of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation -- 1.6.2 Privatization of Japanese National Railways.