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...first place, the DPJ's interest in finding a new balance to the alliance - for which read, a situation in which Japan is less automatically subservient to the U.S. - is not just a matter of Hatoyama's speeches. Ichiro Ozawa, the veteran politician man who cobbled the DPJ together and who is bound to influence policy as the party's general-secretary, has argued for decades that Japan should be a "normal" country, with its own foreign and domestic policy priorities, set in relation to its own interests...
...Ichiro Ozawa, co-founder of the party, expressed a quiet confidence...
...Yosano is able to be flexible because - unusually for a leading Japanese politician - he has no factional ties. He gets appointments the Confucian way: through merit. And his political contacts are not confined to the LDP; he plays go with opposition party president Ichiro Ozawa. As his plans become more front and center, his star seems to be on the rise. Yosano took second place to Aso in last September's elections for a new LDP leader. "Given the problems that Japan faces, people feel that there's a solid quality to Yosano, a trustworthiness that makes people feel confident...
...wrest control of government from Aso's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for the first time in decades in the next general election. There has been speculation that Aso might call an election in May or June to take advantage of a political-contributions scandal surrounding DPJ leader Ichiro Ozawa, but no decision has been made. An election must be held by October...
...OZAWA: I believe that the Meiji Restoration is one of the greatest revolutions in global history. The Meiji government took as their policy to pursue, catch up and surpass the Western powers. I am convinced that we have to carry out a similar revolution of the same magnitude. But the Meiji Restoration was achieved by force. We will bring about a revolution by democratic means, by achieving a majority in the election...