The prime minister has indeed been twisting arms to get his way on Japan Post.
The 30-year-old former employee at Japan Post Co. is heading to the U.K. in August to study fashion.
This is similar to the experience of other rapidly growing Asian economies like Japan post World War II.
It was for these reasons that Mr Koizumi outlined plans to privatise Japan Post by degrees between 2007 and 2017.
Besides Japan Post's savings and insurance arms, for example, there are nine other big financial outfits in the public sector.
Its members voted against the Japan Post privatisation, but they say they are only opposed to the details, not to privatisation in principle.
DPJ, led by Katsuya Okada, has clearly been frustrated by Mr Koizumi's skill at portraying Japan Post as a litmus test for reformists.
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DPJ, its own postal plan would shrink the state's influence even more than his, by halving the assets of Japan Post before eventually selling it.
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The danger for Mr Koizumi is that by stressing one issue Japan Post, which he has yet to explain clearly he may fail to connect with many reformist voters.
It might feel good at first, but, as post-1980s Japan and our post-2000 Internet sector show, bubbles have nasty aftereffects.
It might feel good at first, but as post-1980s Japan and the post-2000 internet and telecom sectors show, bubbles have nasty aftereffects.
As youngsters, these people were the shock troops during the golden period of Japan's post-war economic transformation.
Renunciation of military solutions after all, is a cornerstone of Japan's post-WWII success and high esteem in the region.
Japan in the post-World War II era has been an export-led economy.
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Japan's post-World War II, bureaucratically-guided economic modus operandi is clearly failing.
This fund outperformed the MSCI Japan Index during the post-rebound in 2009.
Ms Nishioka added that Japan may continue to post trade deficits in the near term as a weak yen increases the cost of imports.
The State Oceanic Administration accuses Japan's Weekly Post of "sheer nonsense and malicious speculation" following its expose on a Chinese government ship allegedly aiming a machine gun at a Japanese fishing boat near disputed East China Sea islands on 18 February, People's Daily reports.
He places the long-serving post-war prime minister Yoshida Shigeru, who signed the U.S.-Japan peace treaty and the first post-occupation status of forces agreement, in the former camp, along with Nakasone Yasuhiro, Koizumi Junichiro, and Noda Yoshihiko.
In the postscript Ono writes that her life in post-war Japan influenced the work.
The goal of post-war Japan was to catch up with America by every means available.
By 1997 or 1998, Japan's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications predicts, the system will be in practical use.
So, very likely, is a Japanese reassessment of the post-WWII Japan-U.S. security relationship.
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It is a big change from the miraculous corporate history of post-war Japan.
Even brands that are struggling to post profits like Japan Airlines have introduced a new logo for the New Year.
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