An initiative has been launched to modernize Myanmar's postal system by introducing Japan's fast, efficient and precise services, in line with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic revitalization plans featuring exports of advanced technologies and services, especially to developing countries in Asia.
Though the two sides have held three rounds of working-level talks so far, Japanese officials believe it will take some time to realize Japanese-style postal services in Myanmar, where people are unused even to writing postal codes.
"It takes a week or so in Myanmar to get mail and parcels delivered from the northernmost to the southernmost part of the country," said Masatoshi Kawano, a Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications official involved in the initiative.