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TOKYO (AP) - Japan's ruling party approved a package of bills Thursday to privatize the country's trillion-dollar postal service, the top item in the government's reform agenda after its decisive election victory last week.
The bills, whose rejection by the upper house last month prompted Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to call snap elections held Sept. 11, cleared a special Liberal Democratic Party committee and were approved by LDP leadership, a party official said.
Cabinet approval is needed before the plan can move to a special session of parliament that opened this week. The LDP's coalition partner, the New Komei Party, also met to discuss the bills Thursday.
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