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Mr Ozawa's supporters believe he promises the sort of strong leadership that would let him build coalitions with the opposition.

Ozawa has excelled at getting public works in the countryside. He knows how much rural Japan needs reviving.

For the good of Japanese democracy, not to mention its own future, the DPJ must reject Mr Ozawa and all that he stands for.

Meanwhile, the DPJ's leader, Ichiro Ozawa, who used to have a reformist streak, now sounds like an old-style LDP boss.

Of these at least 150 are known to be loyal to Mr Ozawa (although others loathe him), whereas Mr Kan lacks a strong faction of his own.

Mr. Kan promised to move the party away from the sort of money politics that the scandal-tainted Mr. Ozawa had come to represent.

Mr Ozawa is different. Though only four years older than Mr Kan, he seems to have been around forever.

After six months of agonising, Fukuda ignored her mother's misgivings and decided to accept Ozawa's offer.

Mr Ozawa has one more means of destruction: the nuclear option of leading his true supporters out of the party.

Hurting Mr. Ozawa's chances: He is disliked by most cabinet members and leaders of his own party, as well as the Japanese public.

A doctor who accompanied Ozawa said the cancer is in an early stage.

Mr Ozawa had been party leader until May, when allegations of fund-raising irregularities in his own office forced his resignation.

But it is still helpful to think of Mr Ozawa as a revolutionary, putting ends above ruthless means.

Mr. Hatoyama said he had also asked Mr. Ozawa to resign and that Mr. Ozawa had agreed to step down.

Mr. Ozawa denies any wrongdoing in a scandal that has already resulted in the arrest of two of his political aides.

If market players like volatility, they should be rooting for a victory by Ichiro Ozawa in the race to be Japan's Prime Minister.

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Though Mr Ozawa has relinquished his role as the DPJ head, few expect him to give up his role as the power behind the throne.

But if he is to prosper as a reformer, he will have to break Mr Ozawa's grip on the party.

Victory for Mr Ozawa in a DPJ leadership election set for Tuesday would not spell the end of mutual suspicions .

With tears in his eyes, Hatoyama told a party gathering both he and party secretary-general Ichiro Ozawa would resign their posts.

Hence Mr Ozawa controls the biggest group among the DPJ's 412 members of parliament, and their vote is likely to be decisive.

AT THE heart of Ichiro Ozawa's constituency near Oshu City in north-east Japan stands the huge Isawa dam, built of rock.

Until his challenge, Mr Ozawa had a reputation as an electoral mastermind whom his supporters thought indispensable.

Mr Ozawa wants both to have low tolls and taxpayer funds to go on building unnecessary roads.

Ozawa is far from perfect. But for all the flak he gets, the fact remains that Ozawa is the nation's most visionary politician.

Ichiro Ozawa, the leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, said in a speech at a recent party convention.

The same year, he and Ichiro Ozawa, his mentor and fellow LDP rebel, were among the founding members of the Democratic Party of Japan.

Mr Ozawa's decision to clear his name while clinging to his exalted position in the DPJ has already started to spatter the party with mud.

"The question is to what extent Ozawa can restrain himself, " said Tomoaki Iwai, a professor at Nihon University in Tokyo.

So does Mr Ozawa's recent insistence that the main reason for scrapping the petrol levy was to boost the economy.

With polls indicating that most Japanese favour his resignation, Mr Ozawa has changed tack and agreed to be questioned by prosecutors.

Mr. Ozawa is widely known as the 'god of elections, ' the country's most effective political strategist.

Katsuya Okada, a moderniser, would be Mr Ozawa's likeliest replacement, though he led the party to defeat at the last general election.

He adds that Mr Ozawa is rumoured to have enticed the notoriously fickle Mr Hatoyama by promising to make him foreign minister, if elected.

A Prime Minister Ozawa who enjoys less than a 20% approval rating from the voters will face loud calls for an early election.

If he were to win on September 14th, Mr Ozawa, 68, would automatically become prime minister, Japan's third this year alone.

He said that ruling party kingpin Ichiro Ozawa would also resign from the party's No 2 post.

Ozawa is seen as the only one who can break that deadlock.

Mr Ozawa has said that the upper house will vote down any extension of operations not countenanced by the United Nations.

But the Democratic Party, Ichiro Ozawa, hinted that big brother will not be as popular support for the choice of Maehara.

Yet the dam represents the dark side of Mr Ozawa, too.

However, Mr Ozawa is not to be stopped by mere unpopularity.

In this goal Mr Ozawa is the constant man of Japanese politics.

Some analysts believe that Naoto Kan Please Ozawa refused to quit the party concerned, the Cabinet tarnished image, has been reduced.

Ozawa, the opposition parties will continue to demand respect as a witness to the Congress to explain political funding.

Asked this week about what role Ozawa would play if the Democrats won power, Hatoyama said only that he would have an important post.

A fund-raising scandal forced the resignation of his predecessor, Ichiro Ozawa.

Clearly, he is concerned that Mr Ozawa might direct a stealth attack on his government during the DPJ's leadership elections in September.

Had he won, Mr Ozawa would have become the country's prime minister, despite corruption scandals and his widespread unpopularity.

Naoto Kan of the sectarian forces are not strong, Ichiro Ozawa, the party's largest faction is Naoto Kan of the hostile forces.

Mr Ozawa had sway over his children for as long as he held the whip.

Even if Mr. Kaieda emerges at the top in the first round of voting, critics of Mr. Ozawa could line up en masse behind the runner-up.

Yet even before the arrests, many DPJ members feared Mr Ozawa would be a liability as prime minister.

But from the party Ozawa after school, if the dissolution of the House of Representatives general election, they face extinction.

At the same time, DPJ members privately admit that this is a formidable bunch for the party's bruising head, Ichiro Ozawa, to fight.

However, nor is it likely to dispel the impression that Mr Hatoyama is, at times, worryingly like a puppet on Mr Ozawa's string.

Seiji Ozawa, Japan's most noted conductor, has been diagnosed with esophageal cancer in its early stages, his management office announced.

NOT for nothing is Ichiro Ozawa known as "The Destroyer" .

The new prime minister is not burning all his bridges with Mr Ozawa's people.

To his detractors, Ichiro Ozawa represents the worst of Japanese politics.

Mr Ozawa's detractors accuse him of being a throwback to the bad old days of "money-power" politics.

What's more, Mr Ubukata complains, Mr Ozawa controls all the DPJ's funds and allocates them to his most loyal supporters.

The prosecutors, meanwhile, have leaked furiously to the media, which, say Mr Ozawa's defenders, hints at an establishment conspiracy.

'I urge Mr, Ozawa not to give in [to prosecutors] and to prove his innocence, ' Mr. Hatoyama said at the convention.

Many of Ozawa's ideas have been overshadowed by his poor image.

New Year, the escalation of conflict within the Democratic Party of Japan, Naoto Kan and Ichiro Ozawa, are publicly criticizing each other.

Challenger Ichiro Ozawa has made it clear that he is not afraid to pull the trigger on yen intervention if needed.

"Some people, including me, regard Mr Ozawa as the symbol of old politics, " says Keisuke Tsumura, a DPJ lawmaker.

Although he is relatively unknown, Mr. Tarutoko enjoys the support of the party's shadowy power broker, Ichiro Ozawa.

But Ozawa's 400 million yen at the borrowing cost of buying land has not recorded revenue and expenditure report for 2004.

With the end of the cold war, Mr Ozawa recognised that the "LDP system" , founded in 1955, had outlived its purpose.

Mr Ozawa backed Banri Kaieda, a trade minister who looked increasingly in danger of becoming a puppet for the backroom fixer.

That degree of unpopularity, even for someone as thick-skinned as Mr Ozawa, may limit his power for making further mischief.

Tang expressed his appreciation for Ozawa's decade-long efforts to promote the Great Wall Program and establish the Shisei Fund.

The magazine even showed pictures of Aoki standing with 68-year-old Ozawa on the balcony of a hotel room, hand in hand and in bathrobes.

Okada has said that if Ozawa refused to attend, will be the year in the political resolution of ethical review will be by writ of summons.

The party executive backs him, but Mr Ozawa is fighting for his political life.

The latest survey by the mass circulation Yomiuri newspaper showed Mr Kan and Mr Ozawa running "neck and neck" .

But if the conciliatory Mr Noda feels obliged to bring Ozawa forces into government, party modernisation may take a back seat.

Even if he jettisons Mr Ozawa, the chances are that he will rely on the man's Svengali-like influence from behind the scenes.

But Mr. Kan told DPJ lawmakers Thursday that Ozawa's candidacy was a positive move.

Ozawa has the potential to suspected breaches of the "political capital regulation Dhamma" crime was court.

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Mr Kan's choice of ministers also represented a clean break with his party's former powerbroker, Ichiro Ozawa.

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Naoto Kan and Okada after the residence and the Democratic Party Acting Secretary General Yukio discuss a branch of wild Ozawa problem.

Conversely, the Boston Symphony rarely appeared in Europe in the 1990s during the latter part of Seiji Ozawa's 29-year tenure.

Although Mr Ozawa is widely disliked by voters, he commands the support of many MPs.

The 500-strong delegation of the Democratic Party of Japan led by Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa begins its visit to China today.

That has led to a showdown between Mr. Ozawa and other party leaders.

Japan's ruling party should cast its most famous member, Ichiro Ozawa, into the wilderness.

Mr Ozawa subjugated policy and principle to winning elections with pork and deficit spending.

By temperament, Mr Ozawa would rather not sit in the cabinet, accountable to the prime minister.

It would reinforce the impression that Mr Ozawa had done the party no good, and make it easier to send him packing.

At the same time, Mr Ozawa, an electoral strategist of genius, learnt from his years in the LDP to play politics behind the scenes.

Mr Ozawa is now urging his forces to bring about an upheaval in Japanese politics.

Okada and other top Democrats why suddenly started to take a tough stance against Ozawa?

Since then, Ozawa, Kan asked to explain to Congress political donations scandal.

The first is the role of Ichiro Ozawa, the Svengali-like figure who stood mischievously behind Mr Hatoyama.

A change of leadership might not be the end of Mr Ozawa, though.

Mr Ozawa's cronies may feel they have no option but to support him.

Mr Ozawa may have helped win the DPJ's thumping majority in last August's lower-house contest.

Last October, Tokyo will agree to review the fifth case, prosecutors charged Ozawa.

Concessions to Mr Ozawa's camp could be smart if they prevent the DPJ from fracturing.

He owes Mr Ozawa nothing and is already warning the bruiser off.

Perhaps the wavy-locked Mr Hatoyama was not Samson to Mr Ozawa's temple after all.

Therefore, Naoto Kan had to pick up "off Ozawa, " the double-edged sword.

But he says that he sees Mr Ozawa as a radical reformer who can build bridges with opposition parties, such as the LDP.

He on the one hand by "de-Ozawa" to gather the party people, so they do everywhere constraints.

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Mr Ozawa promises to restore the pension system, help the working poor and the old, and revitalise the countryside.

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Whatever the panel's vote, Mr. Ozawa isn't under any legal obligation to appear before it.

Ozawa's former private secretary pool Tianguang Zhi (34) also took over after the court found fraud in Ishikawa.

Mr Ozawa, who has been investigated but not charged with anything, is merely the latest in a long and illustrious line.

That Mr Ozawa's political career might come to an end matters hugely.

From him, Mr Ozawa learnt how to wield power from out of sight.

He has made some other appointments that appear aimed at mollifying Mr Ozawa's supporters.

Mr Ozawa says his aide is innocent and vows to stay on as leader.

Yet behind the scenes, Mr Ozawa looks in sudden trouble.

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Should Ozawa push too hard, he could see his fragile party fall apart.

If so, he could bring Mr Ozawa under suspicion, too.

But, he says, Mr Ozawa left the room abruptly, saying he had no time to discuss such matters.

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Mr Ozawa was vocal in his disapproval.

If Mr Ozawa remains influential, he will only undermine any future party leader in the eyes of voters.

For Mr Ozawa, this was unwelcome.

Mr Ozawa seized on the Indian Ocean operations as a means to topple the government.

Mr Ozawa is soon to stand trial on similar charges.

If Mr Ozawa focuses on these jobs, then Mr Hatoyama can get on with his.

Mr. Ozawa wasn't arrested because he's not considered a flight risk.

He's an A. His rival, opposition leader Ichiro Ozawa, is a B.

If Mr Ozawa wins, he is likely to reverse the policy again.

That was because many owed their jobs to Mr Ozawa, a back-room fixer in opposition politics for 17 years.

Mr Ozawa is a bundle of contradictions.

In the Asahi Shinbum poll, 61% of respondents said they wanted Mr. Ozawa to step down as party leader.

Mr Kan has retained strong ties with Mr Ozawa.

If anyone can resolve these tricky issues, it is Mr Ozawa.

Yet Mr Ozawa has a gun to the party's head.

Ozawa Jan. 31 financial report because of false political contributions were mandatory prosecution.

Mr Ozawa's enemies in the justice system may have an axe to grind.

I looked around, Ozawa's number, said softly, this time, I will leave you far away, you must take good care of yourself.

That is a forceful measure, never used before, and Mr Ozawa threatens an upper-house censure.

Kan won 721 votes in Tuesday's election, compared with Ichiro Ozawa's 491 ballots.

Whether or not Mr Ozawa believes he can win, he has other motives for running.

Mr. Ozawa couldn't be reached to comment on Monday.

If the DPJ picks Mr Ozawa as Japan's next leader, it can expect no mercy.

Ozawa has been married for many years.

If Mr Ozawa wins on September 14, he will be Japan's third prime minister in 12 months.

He believes that without Mr Ozawa's leadership, there would be further paralysis in Japan's hung parliament.

All right-thinking people in Japan say they are against the "money politics" Mr Ozawa is said to represent.

A victory for Mr Kan will cheer those hoping for some reform in Japan; a win for Mr Ozawa will not.

But no matter who is chosen, he will still face Mr Ozawa's dogged obstructionism.

Mr Ozawa, who is 68, has suffered countless reverses before, only to charge back.

He has shown more financial nous than Messrs Hatoyama and Ozawa in arguing for fiscal reform in Japan.

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