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The outside of a Japan Post Bank branch in Akita, Japan. In 2019, Japan Post Bank was managing ¥205 trillion of assets. It oversaw approximately 120 million customer accounts, who had access to services in almost 24,000 branches across Japan, most of which are contracted post offices officially belonging to the Japan Post Service. [2]
Japan Post Bank, part of the post office was the world's largest savings bank with 198 trillion yen (US$1.7 trillion) of deposits as of 2006, [22] much from conservative, risk-averse citizens. The state-owned Japan Post Bank business unit of Japan Post was formed in 2007, as part of a ten-year privatization programme, intended to achieve fully ...
Yucho (ゆうちょ, Yūcho) is an interbank network in Japan, owned and operated by the postal savings division of Japan Post Bank. It counts some 26,519 ATMs, of which 23,500 are at post offices and 2,869 are away from post offices. The number of ATMs correspond to about one for every post office in Japan, excluding a few post offices that ...
The post offices offered the highest interest rates for regular savings accounts (8% for time deposits in 1990) and tax-free savings until 1988, thereby collecting more deposits and accounts than any other institution in the world. The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) is the only government institution with an international focus ...
The law also stated that Japan Post Bank and Japan Post Insurance are to go public in 2010 and their shares would be made available to the market two years later. [8] [9] However, the majority privatisation process, which nonetheless saw the Japanese government still maintain control of one-third of the company's stock, was completed in October ...
At the end of 2019, the government had a 57% ownership stake in Japan Post Holdings, [24] which still owns 90% of Japan Post Bank and Japan Post Insurance. [25] [26] In April 2021, Japan Post Holdings agreed to sell part of its unprofitable Australian logistics company Toll Holdings for only 7.8 million Australian dollars. [27]
The Bank of Japan defines the monetary aggregates as: [26] M1: cash currency in circulation, plus deposit money; M2 + CDs: M1 plus quasi-money and CDs; M3 + CDs: M2 + CDs plus deposits of post offices; other savings and deposits with financial institutions; and money trusts
Japan Post (Nihon Yūsei Kōsha (日本郵政公社)), restructured to Japan Post Bank in 2007. Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries Finance Corporation (AFC; Nōrin Gyogyō Kin'yū Kōko (農林漁業金融公庫)), merged to JFC in 2008.