Competition emerging from ongoing market reforms ranging from the financial "Big Bang" to telecommunications deregulation is taking many of Japan's industrial dinosaurs to the verge of extinction.
This time around, it's the electric power industry's turn.
With the partial liberalization of electricity retailing starting today, thanks to the revised Electricity Enterprise Act, 30 percent of Japan's 15 trillion yen power market is now subject to open competition.
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