Japan Post Service

It's a really point of view thing.

I feel very blessed with Japan Post hearing that then, Ibrahim, because Japan has the best postal service in the world, mate.

I tell you, coming from Australia, Australia is terrible.

Well, not that it goes missing, but it takes forever, and they sort of just – I was there not so long ago, and I ordered some stuff from a hobby store, materials and stuff like that.

Chats show ministry help tone down mail scandal response.

Internal chats show apparent internal affairs ministry pressure in limiting the public response to a Japan Post company scandal involving the discarding of undelivered mail by postal workers.

A chat group log of messages exchanged by internal affairs ministry officials point to involvement in how Japan Post responded to an inquiry from the Asahi Shimbun about the misconduct.

After the Asahi scoop in September 2025, the newspaper began looking into what the Internal Affairs Ministry did in the 15 months it was aware of the discarding of mail before it was made public.

On September 22, 2025, the Asahi sent a list of questions to Japan Post about whether the ministry gave instructions during the 15-month period and if it reported to the ministry about what it had done.

The Asahi subsequently obtained the log of the Microsoft team's chat group set up to share information about the Japan Post scandal.

On the evening of September 24, 2025, a draft of the response compiled by Japan Post officials was shared by the chat group, with one participant writing that the company had provided too much in the way of a response.

Among other things, Japan Post wrote in the draft that it had reported to the ministry about how it dealt with ministry instructions.

Tuesday, September 1, this is the the Asahi Shimbun Asia and Japan Watch News Briefing.

Ministry Group Chat, Delay the Release of Japan Post Scandal Info The Internal Affairs Ministry is in an ironic bind after it attempted to delay responding to requests for public information despite being the entity in charge of the information disclosure law.

The Asahi Shimbun uncovered this attempt that pertained especially to matters concerning the ministry itself after a September 2025 scoop about Japan Post Company.

The Postal Service did not publicize the fact that delivery workers had discarded undelivered mail.

While the ministry investigated the matter and in June 2024 instructed Japan Post to improve the situation, the company still did not publicly announce that mail had been tossed until the Asahi article was published.

The issue then shifted to why nothing was done for 15 months as well as the ministry's actions concerning Japan Post.

Repeat tactics.

Immediately after the article appeared, ministry officials in charge of postal services insisted they had handled the matter appropriately, but did not provide details.