Japan Post Bank : current issues and prospects / Akira Uno.

This book provides a comprehensive view on how regional financial institutions should be operated in order to restore Japans fiscal health. It points out that, even though the Japan Post Bank has been partially privatized, the old mandatory deposit system still virtually exists between the bank and...

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Main Author: Uno, Akira (Researcher in economics)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer, 2020.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction Optimizing Japanś 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 Japanś 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
  • 2 Integrated Institutional Design for FILP Reform, Postal Privatization, and Policy-Based Finance Reform
  • 2.1 Drastic FILP Reform
  • Challenges in Restoring Fiscal Health
  • 2.2 Postal Privatization and the Postal Savings Bank
  • Problems of the Fund-Raising Function
  • 2.2.1 Discussions on Postal Privatization
  • 2.2.2 Postal Privatization Bills
  • 2.2.3 Setting Up a Transitional Company and Developing an Implementation Plan
  • 2.2.4 Implementation Plan for Transferring Japan Post Operations
  • 2.3 Reforming Policy-Based Financial Institutions
  • Problems with Fund Management Function
  • 3 Goals of Financial Structural Reform via Privatization of Public Financial Services
  • 3.1 Complementing the Private Sector with Public Financial Services and Reducing Their Assets
  • 3.2 Improving Public Financial Services Revenue and Return on Assets
  • References