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it's not private! its holding company, japan post holding company limited owns 100% of it, and the government owns 100% of japan post holding company! therefore it is 100% publicly owned! it just has the structure of a private entity but with public owners. it is no more private than northern rock bank in the uk!

who wrote this article?!!?!

i will even quote from the reference in the article:

"Japan Post Bank is one of four business units created within state-owned Japan Post [JP.UL] on Oct. 1 to begin a 10-year privatisation process." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.192.222.144 (talk) 01:48, 27 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

at 2017, shares in both the bank and the holding company trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. I'm not sure how big the free float is. The Bank's website has an Investors' page, which suggests they have some among the general public. Chrismorey (talk) 03:29, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Japanese name abbreviation[edit]

The first line gives the Japanese name as:

株式会社ゆうちょ銀行 Kabushiki-gaisha, Yū-cho Ginkō (郵貯) for short

However, this seems a bit strange. I propose changing it to:

株式会社ゆうちょ銀行 Kabushiki-gaisha Yū-cho Ginkō, commonly abbreviated to ゆうちょ銀行 (Yū-cho Ginkō), or just ゆうちょ(Yū-cho)

Some notes:

The current method is just strange. The English phrase, "for short," seems as though it should conflict with Wikipedia's style guidelines. Also, how is it for short if it's the full name of the company? Also, why is there a comma in the middle of the name? I think the author of this meant to say, "Kabushiki-gaisha Yū-cho Ginkō, or Yū-cho Ginkō for short."
It may be very difficult to find an appropriate scholarly source to cite its common name. I had never known the kanji for ゆうちょ until I read this article, and while it may be an interesting facet of information, I'm not sure how useful it is, and it certainly shouldn't overshadow the much more commonly used hiragana spelling. I've had an account with this bank for 2 years, and it's my primary savings account, and I had never known that these kanji were the ones for ゆうちょ (although, after seeing them, it is immediately obvious, and I shall likely never forget them ever again).
If Wikipedia has some standard for foreign character names, those should be followed. However, I don't know them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.17.175.171 (talk) 13:33, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]