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History
The following is the history of Japan Post from its establishment to today.
| 1871 | Modern postal service established (new postal system set up between Tokyo and Kyoto and Tokyo and Osaka) |
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| 1872 | Registered mail service launched Nationwide postal network completed |
| 1873 | Nationwide flat-rate system introduced Issuance of postcards begun |
| 1875 | Government mail offices and mail handling offices renamed post offices Postal money order service established International mail service launched Postal savings service established |
| 1877 | Joined the Universal Postal Union |
| 1880 | Foreign postal money order service launched |
| 1885 | Issuance of reply-paid postcards begun Ministry of Communications established |
| 1887 | The 〒 mark adopted as the logo for the Ministry of Communications |
| 1892 | Parcel post service begun |
| 1894 | First commemorative stamps (two types; celebrating the 25th royal wedding anniversary of the Meiji Emperor) issued |
| 1899 | Special New Year’s postcards delivery service launched (suspended in 1923, when the Great Kanto Earthquake occurred, and in the pre- and post-war periods from 1940 to 1947) |
| 1901 | Red post boxes introduced |
| 1906 | Money Transfer service established |
| 1910 | Governmental pensions payment receiving service launched |
| 1911 | Express mail service launched |
| 1916 | Postal life insurance service established |
| 1926 | Postal life annuity service established |
| 1928 | Kokumin Hoken Taiso (radio exercise) program launched |
| 1931 | Foreign Money Transfer service launched |
| 1941 | TEIGAKU deposits introduced |
| 1944 | System allowing payment of postage in arrears introduced |
| 1949 | The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications established Law Concerning Contracted Post Offices went into effect Issuance of New Year’s lottery postcards begun |
| 1950 | Issuance of summer greeting postcards begun |
| 1961 | Postal orders (TEIGAKU KOGAWASE ) service introduced |
| 1968 | Three- or five-digit postal code system introduced |
| 1973 | Depositor loan service introduced |
| 1975 | Express mail service (EMS) launched |
| 1983 | Furusato parcel service launched |
| 1989 | Issuance of regional stamps (later renamed Furusato stamps) and New Year’s lottery stamps begun The passbook with remittance service launched |
| 1991 | Issuance of Furusato picture postcards and donation-added New Year’s lottery stamps begun Foreign exchange service launched |
| 1998 | Seven-digit postal code system introduced |
| 2001 | Postal Services Agency established |
| 2003 | Japan Post established |
| 2007 | Japan Post Group established with Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd., Japan Post Service Co., Ltd., Japan Post Network Co., Ltd., Japan Post Bank Co., Ltd., and Japan Post Insurance Co., Ltd. |
| 2012 | The “Act for Partial Revision of the Postal Service Privatization Act and others” went into effect, Japan Post Service and Japan Post Network merged, and Japan Post Co., Ltd. established. Japan Post Group comprised Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd., Japan Post Co., Ltd., Japan Post Bank Co., Ltd. and Japan Post Insurance Co., Ltd. |
| 2015 | Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange Japan Post Bank Co., Ltd. listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange Japan Post Insurance Co., Ltd. listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange |
(As of March 31, 2017)
