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...TIME: We've seen what U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has done in his first 100 days. If the DPJ takes power in the next general election, what can we expect...
...OZAWA: We have already come up with a timetable for actions to be taken after we take power. But the general election has been delayed again and again and again, and so we have not disclosed our timetable yet. As for specific issues - for example pension reforms and medical insurance reforms and employment issues - of course we have to deal with those. However, more important is that we have to make fundamental reform in the current government system, in which the government is led primarily by the bureaucracy. We have to replace this with a system in which the politicians...
...Japan's main opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), has been a behind-the-scenes political player for more than 20 years. But the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan is losing its grip on power, and Ozawa might be stepping into the premiership after the next general election. At his office in DPJ headquarters in Nagatacho, the heart of Tokyo government, Ozawa spoke with TIME's Michael Elliott and Coco Masters about reforming the economy, the trouble with bureaucrats and U.S.-Japan cooperation. (Read "Ozawa: The Man Who Wants to Save Japan...
...responding to your question, if I was able to win the general election as the President of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), and I am supported by the majority of the voters, then I am ready to deliver my responsibility...
...country where general information is so severely circumscribed, innuendoes, puns and astrological signs often play a big role in reading national trends like jatropha. Ever looking for a hidden meaning to the seemingly incomprehensible actions of their leaders, some speculate that the Burmese word for "jatropha" sounds like an inversion of the name of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy may be the junta's most potent opposition. By inverting Suu Kyi's name, perhaps the superstitious junta believes that the kyet-suu plant will cause her democracy movement to wither away. (Read...