Japan Post, with new boss, returning to public roots  by Hiroko
Nakata  Bowing to calls to resign, most adamantly by Shizuka
Kamei, state minister in charge of postal services, charismatic
former banker Yoshifumi Nishikawa officially stepped down
Wednesday as president of Japan Post Holdings Co. and was
replaced by former Vice Finance Minister Jiro Saito.  Experts
say replacing Nishikawa is a turning point in the long-troubled
postal privatization process.  Why is the Democratic Party of
Japan-led government trying to overturn the privatization
scheme, and why was it going to be privatized in the first
place?  Here are some questions and answers about the
controversial and politically complex group that encompasses the
national postal network and two gigantic financial institutions:
Why did Nishikawa have to resign?  Nishikawa said Oct. 20 at his
last news conference that he would step down because he and the
current administration had fundamental differences over how
Japan Post should operate.  Nishikawa wa