There's no way this can be absorbed by the trust fund bureau.

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But privatising the postal savings and insurance business was seen as the best way to wrestle these vast funds away from the finance ministry's Trust Fund Bureau.

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Theoretically, Japan has enough savings to do this but in practice the savings don't get intermediated through the banking and life insurance companies and the trust fund bureau and the post office savings account in sufficient quantities to buy these bonds.

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