Press Conference by Taro Aso, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, and Minister of State for Financial Services

(Excerpt)

(Friday, November 18, 2016, 8:47 am to 8:51 am)

[Questions and answers:]

Q.

Yesterday, the LDP’s Diet Members for Promoting New Uses for Post Offices convened and drew up a resolution calling for raising the upper limit on deposits at Japan Post Bank again before the end of the current fiscal year. Could you please give us your views on this recommendation and tell us whether it is likely that the Postal Privatization Committee will come to some kind of conclusion by the end of the year?

A.

I’m aware of that but, as for how much progress will be made within the LDP by the end of the fiscal year, I have no knowledge of any specific timetable or roadmap.