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Ozawa is the Secretary-General of Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan (DJP) and the éminence grise of the electoral campaign that catapulted the new Prime Minister to power to transform Japanese politics. More than anyone else over the past 20 years, Ozawa worked to bring down the Liberal Democratic Party through means both public and subtle. His opinions, such as pursuing independent foreign-policy goals rather than cleaving to the U.S. (as Tokyo has done since the end of World War II), are likely to gain traction - raising the question of how much influence he will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's New Prime Minister — and New Shadow Shogun | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

...office, given his array of personal ties to former prime ministers and to the Imperial family itself (His brother-in-law is a prince, the first cousin of Emperor Akihito). That higher personality profile, both more elite and more popular, contrasts him with the likely new president of the DJP, Ichiro Ozawa, who, like Fukuda, is not popular. Indeed, two DPJ members of the Upper House formed their own party last week to protest their own party's role in the ongoing Diet gridlock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Japan, A Strategic Resignation | 9/1/2008 | See Source »

...says, Fukuda "threw the administration away" by resigning so soon. Seiji Maehara, vice president of the DPJ, says, "The LDP people hope Aso will be in power," but he says an early general election will just prove that LDP will trot out the same old policies while the DJP has revolutionary ideas that will win it the "reins of power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Japan, A Strategic Resignation | 9/1/2008 | See Source »

...ELECTED. YUKIO HATOYAMA, 55, as leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, the country's largest opposition party; after a closely contested runoff against party Secretary-General Naoto Kan; in Tokyo. Despite holding a quarter of the seats in Japan's Diet, a recent newspaper poll showed that that djp is supported by less than 10% of the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

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