Japan Post President Masaharu Ikuta said Friday he is against calls for the new public postal corporation to dump more funds from postal savings and insurance into the flagging stock market.
"I don't think it is appropriate to use our resources to temporarily shore up the (stock) market," Ikuta said.
Ruling coalition lawmakers have recently been calling on the new entity to inject more money to lift share prices from 20-year lows.
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