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| | Ichiro Ozawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Ichiro Ozawa (小沢一郎 Ozawa Ichirō, born 1942) is a Japanese politician, formerly a leader of the Liberal Democratic Party and later of the New Frontier Party and the Liberal Party. | | | In 2004, Ozawa was affected by the Pension Scandal. | | | Ozawa was extremely successful in luring LDP members to the Renewal Party, causing the LDP to lose its majority in the Diet. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichiro_Ozawa
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| | Ichiro Ozawa |
| | Ichiro Ozawa is a Japanese politician, formerly the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party and later of the Japan Liberal Party. |
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http://www.starrepublic.org/encyclopedia/wikipedia/i/ic/ichiro_ozawa.html
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| | Asiaweek.com |
| | When the elder Ozawa died in 1968, his local political support group urged his son to contest the seat. | | | His lawyer father, Ozawa Saeki, won a Diet seat from northern Iwate prefecture in the first post-war election. | | | Until recently, Ozawa was content to be the power behind more popular figures such as Hosokawa Morihiro and Hata Tsutomu, both of whom became prime minister with his backing. |
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http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/96/0119/nat3.html
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| | Ozawa was always in the center court of political reorganization, but he has been in isolation. | | | One of the LDP's influential members perceives that Ozawa, who used to assert that Japan is constitutionally allowed to exercise the right of collective self-defense, began at that time to steer his party in the direction of amending the Constitution. | | | His message is that his party's proposal of reducing the number of house seats is a "tactic" and the proposal of constitutional revision is a "strategy." Although Ozawa has been strongly concerned about the Constitution, his initiative on this problem has been politically shackled until now. |
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http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/dsjp/summaries/1999/September/SM990910.doc
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| | Kakuei Tanaka - a political biography of modern Japan: |
| | Also in 1991, Kanemaru's protegé, Ichiro Ozawa, resigned as Secretary General of the LDP to take responsibilty for the party's loss in the Tokyo gubernatorial election. | | | Ichiro Ozawa, age 41, Iwate Prefecture, Keio University, Vice Minister of Construction. | | | With Kanemaru on the back bench, Ozawa felt that it was time to cut his loses or go down with his mentor. |
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http://www.rcrinc.com/tanaka/ch5-4.html
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| | Scandal Hits Japanese Parliament |
| | Ichiro Ozawa, a member of Japan's national Diet, or parliament, and a key strategist for the country's ruling coalition, called a press conference Monday to argue that his own receipt of contributions from a scandal-tainted construction firm proves the need for a law he is pushing to tighten contribution rules. | | | Seemingly unbothered by his brush with scandal, Ozawa conceded the truth of press reports saying he received contributions last December from Kajima Corp., a general contractor that has recently been charged with bribing numerous senior politicians to help win government contracts. | | | But this year he played a central role in the mutiny within the party that helped end its rule and usher in Hosokawa's historic coalition government. |
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http://www-tech.mit.edu/V113/N56/japan.56w.html
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| | An unstable new coalition in Japan |
| | Ozawa's coalition with the LDP is a rather desperate attempt to resurrect his political fortunes. | | | In particular, he stated that the agreement to reduce the number of cabinet ministers from 20 to 17 should be carried out through an immediate cabinet reshuffle. | | | Finance Minister and former prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa announced last week that he would resign as chairman of his faction and hand over to former party secretary general Koichi Kato after end of the next parliamentary session. |
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http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/nov1998/jap-n28.shtml
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| | 94045: Japan's Uncertain Political Transition |
| | In the December 27, 1995 party election to fill its leadership post left vacant by the resignation of Toshiki Kaifu, Ichiro Ozawa easily defeated his long-time ally and former Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata (who in the December 1994 party election for leadership lost to Ozawa-backed Kaifu). | | | In the 1995 election, Kaifu returned the favor by endorsing Ozawa, whereas Hata was supported by former Prime Minister Hosokawa. | | | The LDP-led coalition was inaugurated on January 11, 1996, when Hashimoto was elected Prime Minister in a parliamentary vote, easily defeating the opposition challenger Ichiro Ozawa. |
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http://www.fas.org/man/crs/94-045.htm
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| | Bloomberg.com: Asia |
| | One of Ozawa's first acts may be to withdraw DPJ support for the government's pension reform efforts. | | | In 1993, Ozawa led a group of LDP defectors who brought down the Cabinet of then-Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa. | | | A former LDP secretary general, Ozawa may intensify his party's opposition to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's government and develop more distinct policies. |
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http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=af7zbNGj7Ltg&refer=asia
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| | Ozawa, Ichiro -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Ichiro Ozawa, architect of Japan's unfolding political realignment, lost his hold on the levers of government with the formation of the new Socialist-led government in June 1994. | | | He was, after all, thought to be the most influential politician Japan had produced in recent years and the only... | | | He was, after all, thought to be the most influential politician Japan had produced in recent years and the only one… |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9115395
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| | The Christian Science Monitor csmonitor.com |
| | Some LDP members worry that Ozawa remains true to his agenda and is entering into a coalition in order to fracture the party from within. | | | His real purpose is to divide the LDP into several groups." Morse doesn't predict that the LDP will fracture along policy lines, but that the nation's dire economic situation will force voters to turn elsewhere. | | | Once considered a master behind-the-scenes strategist, the alliances he has formed since 1993 have fractured. |
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http://www.csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/1998/11/24/f-p7s1.shtml
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| | Yukio Hatoyama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | He ran for his father's seat in Hokkaido in #38 and was elected to the House of Representatives. | | | He became DPJ Party Chairman and leader of the opposition from 1999 to 2002, when he resigned after taking responsibility for the confusion that arose from rumors of mergers with the Ichiro Ozawa's Liberal Party. | | | He is the grandson of former Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukio_Hatoyama
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| | Bloomberg.com: Japan |
| | Ozawa's decision to resign may put pressure on Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, 62, to step down, because he stopped his pension contribution for almost seven years, including the same six-year period as Ozawa. | | | The DPJ will be defending 39 seats against 50 held by the ruling party, which has said it wants to gain one seat. | | | Six Cabinet ministers who have skipped pension payments remain at their posts. |
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http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000101&sid=aUhgSxgRxRqE&refer=japan
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| | Asiaweek.com |
| | Ozawa's NFP may see its seats fall from 167 to about 120, with the new Democratic Party possibly picking up as many as 100. | | | Adding to the uncertainty are the Communists, who have shown a remarkable strength in recent elections. | | | But a new party has emerged that may capture enough seats to deprive both of a majority. |
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http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/96/0927/nat1.html
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| | Ichiro Ozawa: Reformer at Bay |
| | Ozawa won the seat in the 1969 general election at the age Of 27--at that | | | Ozawa, at that time a senior leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP),was | | | Like a third of the members of the Diet's lower house, Ozawa, 53, is a second-generation legislator. |
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http://www2.gol.com/users/friedman/writings/Ozawa1.html
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| | This hardly bolsters Mr Okada's authority—or, for that matter, the chances of the DPJ forming a stable government if it were to win the election. | | | No sooner had the PNP been founded than a senior DPJ upper-house legislator, Hideaki Tamura, quit his party to join it. | | | Meanwhile, the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) is also suffering from internal divisions (not least due to the influence of |
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http://www.viewswire.com/index.asp?layout=display_article&doc_id=949356480
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| | The Hindu : A rising star fades |
| | Ozawa, likewise, has also been trying to ask too much from the ruling coalition and this time went too far in that for the second time in a year and a half he has split his party. | | | Ozawa, the Prime Minister was moved to hospital, in a private vehicle, which is an altogether different story. | | | Striving to record these achievements had taken a heavy toll on the self-effacing, cinema-loving man who 36 years ago was vigorous enough to campaign on a bicycle for a lower house seat. |
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http://www.hinduonnet.com/2000/04/09/stories/05091344.htm
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| | BW Online May 16, 2000 Ichiro Ozawa: The Fall of a Japanese Reformer |
| | Today, Ozawa is perhaps the most reviled politician in Japan. | | | Things have sunk so low that he now wants to merge his party with the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, smash the LDP in the upcoming June general election, and recruit a corporate chieftain to serve as Premier. | | | After all, Ozawa was a key powerbroker and fund-raiser with the LDP for years. |
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http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/may2000/nf00516b.htm?scriptFramed
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| | The top priority for Ozawa is to have all lower-house members in his party win seats in the next general election. | | | It is important to serve out our term and give a sense of security to the people in the form of election. | | | As for the Minshuto (Democratic Party of Japan), President Hatoyama and Secretary General Hata have been calling for early dissolution. |
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http://www.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/wwwsul/test/depts/asrg/dailysum/Daily_Summary_2000/jan_00/Sm000127.doc
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| | Sixth party steps forth from Shinshinto wreckage (The Japan Times) Dec. 30, 1997 |
| | Shinshinto head Ichiro Ozawa said Tuesday the name of his new party would be the Liberal Party. | | | Meanwhile, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party said that it will accept five Lower House members from Shinshinto. | | | "I wish that all Shinshinto members remained united after the presidential election (on Dec. 18)," Tatsuo Ozawa said. |
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http://vikingphoenix.com/news/archives/1997/japan/jp970083.htm
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| | AEGiS-Asia Times: Dynamic duo set sights on Koizumi |
| | This includes party founder Yukio Hatoyama, who resigned last December after his own plot for a merger with Ozawa's party failed. | | | This paved the way for Naoto Kan's second stint as party leader. | | | His deal with the devil for his return from a decade in political nowhere land was a promise to destroy his own party. |
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http://www.aegis.com/news/atimes/2003/AT030702.html
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| | Japan Policy & Politics: LEAD: Ozawa compares Japanese to students 'in special classes' |
| | Ozawa, who has been known for his critical views on the Japanese democracy, made the remark as he criticized the recent election of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) presidency that gave Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi a second term as party leader. | | | In particular, Ozawa took issue with Mikio Aoki, a senior LDP member in the Hashimoto faction who is known for his opposition to the privatization of postal services. | | | Ozawa made the remark at a political gathering in Kyoto, which was organized in support of a DPJ member who plans to contest in the coming general election for the House of Representatives for a seat in the No. 1 electoral district in Kyoto. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2003_Sept_29/ai_108316719
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| | Ozawa, Ichiro Japanese politician; Japanese home affairs minister 1985-1987; secretary-general of Liberal Democratic Party 1989-1991; co-founded Japan Renewal Party 1993 (also Shinseito); founder and 1st secretary-general of New Frontier Party 1994-1995 (also Shinshinto); leader of New Frontier Party 1995-- _1942-- | | | Ozawa, Seiji Japanese-US (Chinese-born) conductor; music director of Boston Symphony Orchestra 1973-2002; music director of Vienna State Opera 2002-- _1935-- |
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http://www.s9.com/cgi-s9/engine99.cgi?name=ozawa
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Ozawa Ichiro |
| | Ozawa Ichiro, born in 1942, Japanese politician and leader of the New Frontier Party (NFP), Japan's main opposition party since 1995. | | | Ozawa, Seiji, born in 1935, Japanese conductor, born in Shenyang, China, while the city was under Japanese occupation. | | | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Ozawa Ichiro |
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http://encarta.msn.com/Ozawa_Ichiro.html
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| | Author : works by Ichiro Ozawa |
| | Ichiro Ozawa (小沢一郎, Ozawa Ichirō, 1942 -) is a Japanese politician, formerly the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party and later of the Japan Liberal Party. | | | He later joined the Takeshita faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, and followed faction leaders Tsutomu Hata and Ichiro Ozawa to join Shinseito in 1993. | | | This artikel Katsuya_Okada is licensed under the GNU free Documentation License. |
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http://www.bookreviewdatabase.com/390337_ichiro-ozawa_4770018711blueprintforanewjapanrethinkingcomparebookstores.html
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| | The Japan Times Online |
| | Ichiro Ozawa, deputy president of the Democratic Party of Japan, suggested Thursday that DPJ chief Naoto Kan should resign because he failed to pay the mandatory premiums for the basic pension system while serving as health minister in 1996. | | | In his column in the Yukan Fuji, Ozawa said their acts were equal to tax evasion that cannot be settled with apologies. | | | Ozawa later issued a statement saying he was not actually calling for Kan's resignation. |
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http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20040507a5.htm
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| | HATA, TSUTOMU. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 |
| | Hata resigned from office rather than face certain defeat in a parliamentary no-confidence vote. | | | The plainspoken legislator subsequently broke with the LDP, which he accused of tolerating political corruption, and with Ichiro Ozawa established (1993) the short-lived Japan Renewal (Shinseito) party, sparking Japan& biggest political reorganization the postwar years. | | | In the 1980s and early 90s Hata held a number of cabinet posts in LDP governments, including minister of agriculture (1988) and finance (1991–92). |
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http://www.bartleby.com/aol/65/ha/HataTsuto.html
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| | KSK: Ozawa |
| | Ozawa is an extraordinary figure of the post Cold-War history of Japanese party politics. | | | Ichiro Ozawa is gonna be the next leader of | | | Start your very own Weblog in less than two minutes |
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http://www.20six.co.uk/weblogEntry/1s5dkn844yn7k.htm
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| | NTI: Global Security Newswire |
| | In 1999, a member of Ozawa’s Liberal Democratic party was forced to resign his post as junior defense minister after calling for parliamentary debate on developing a nuclear deterrent in Japan. | | | Japan today confirmed its non-nuclear weapons policy, in response to Ozawa’s statements. | | | The leader of Japan& opposition Liberal Democratic Party last weekend said Japan has enough plutonium to build thousands of nuclear weapons, the London Guardian reported today. |
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http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2002/4/8/7s.html
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| | Time for Kids Magazines |
| | On his first day in office, he clashed with one enemy: Ichiro Ozawa, the politician he beat, 287 votes to 166, in the election. | | | Ozawa is against Hashimoto's financial plans for Japan. | | | But Hashimoto, 58, likes to say what's on his mind even if it makes other people upset. |
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http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/magazines/story/0,6277,96950,00.html
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| | A Lack of Ideology, Part II |
| | But Shinshinto, run by the outspoken Ichiro Ozawa, fell apart after the last party election, in which Ozawa won, to the great dismay of some rather powerful Shinshinto politicians. | | | Shinshinto, formerly the largest opposition party, ran an opposition to the LDP strong enough that the LDP was forced to form a coalition with two other mid-size parties, and thus move a bit to the political center to pacify their more liberal coalition partners. | | | These folks (including two former Prime Ministers) decided they were fed up with Ozawa's strong-arm, uncompromising leadership, and left Shinshinto, taking their loyal supporters to form their own parties. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/politics_east_asia/5057
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| | Kyodo World News Service: Ozawa 3 15 0072 --LP leader to join world liberal parties congress in Hungary@ HighBeam ... |
| | Ozawa 3 15 0072 --LP leader to join world liberal parties congress in Hungary | | | Dateline: TOKYO, March 15 Ichiro Ozawa, leader of the opposition Liberal Party (LP), will attend an annual congress of a global federation of liberal parties in Budapest on March 21-23, party officials said Friday. | | | Kyodo World News Service: Ozawa 3 15 0072 --LP leader to join world liberal parties congress in Hungary@ HighBeam Research |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:51416270&refid=holomed_1
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| | TIME Magazine Archive Article -- LET THE GAMES BEGIN -- Jan. 22, 1996 |
| | When his proxy, Morihiro Hosokawa, was Prime Minister, an election-reform law was passed, and a ban on rice imports was partly lifted. | | | No sooner had the new Prime Minister been installed in office than Ichiro Ozawa, the leader of the opposition New Frontier Party, denounced the ruling coalition as an "illicit cohabitation" and demanded an election for a new Diet, Japan's parliament. | | | That system was rattled in 1993, when Ozawa, an LDP renegade, engineered the election of Japan's first nonconservative Prime Minister post-1948. |
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http://time-proxy.yaga.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,983986,00.html
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| | AFP-990119 |
| | Sun said the Japanese government had clarified Ozawa's remarks through diplomatic channels. | | | Enacting legislation for the US-Japan guidelines is scheduled to be passed in a parliamentary session which opened in Tokyo Tuesday. | | | Sun said Japan-US security cooperation was bilateral cooperation against the special backdrop of the Cold War era. |
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http://www.taiwansecurity.org/AFP/AFP-990119.htm
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| | Ozawas Worldwide |
| | After reading the document, the U.S. Supreme Court chose to deny his ability to become a naturalized citizen on the grounds that a) he wasn't white, black, or Native American and b) because he wasn't born in the U.S. That's some racist crap right there!! | | | Toshiro Ozawa, Ambassador of Japan to the United Nations, at the Meeting of the Second Committee at the Fifty-ninth Session of the General Assembly | | | This is a (near) future site of Michael Ozawa. |
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http://ozawas.blogspot.com/2005_02_01_ozawas_archive.html
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| | Media Monitor - Japan and Nuclear Weapons - June 28, 2002 |
| | Yet less than two months later, the same government spokesman who attacked Ozawa, Yasuo Fukuda, the chief cabinet secretary, declared the three principles might be subject to amendment in the future. | | | Japan is currently amending its Constitution to permit it to take a more active role in the war on terrorism. | | | China, which had labeled Ozawa's remarks as "provocative, representing an outdated Cold War mentality," pronounced itself "shocked to hear remarks like this from a senior Japanese official." Japan's opposition parties immediately called for Fukuda's resignation, and government spokesmen have done a lot of backtracking. |
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http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A687_0_2_0_C/sendpage/index.php
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| | Asia Times: In the name of reform, will Koizumi destroy the LDP? |
| | In 1992, after serving as the popular governor of his home prefecture Kumamoto (Kyushu) from 1983-1991, Morihiro Hosokawa bolted from the Liberal Democratic Party and founded the Japan New Party (Nihon Shinto). | | | Hosokawa and Ozawa founded new political parties in the attempt of pushing the LDP aside. | | | Making common cause with another high-profile LDP defector, Ichiro Ozawa, a coalition led by Hosokawa won the summer 1993 parliamentary elections, sidelined the LDP, and formed a new government. |
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http://www.atimes.com/editor/CF01Ba01.html
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| | TokyoFreePress: There's no reason Maehara, Koizumi can't do what Merkel, Schroeder could |
| | When Maehara ran for the party presidency in September, Maehara somehow felt obliged to ask the shady power broker to become his running mate. | | | Similarly, another LDP defector Ichiro Ozawa started the Liberal Party after drifting about among a couple of short-lived parties. | | | In September 2003, Naoto Kan, yet another former LDP member who was the president of the DPJ at that time, struck a deal with Ozawa to merge his LP into the DPJ. |
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http://www.tokyofreepress.com/article.php?story=20051022024901548&mode=print
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| | TIME Asia Print Page: "The LDP has no policies of its own" -- September 22, 2003 / Vol. 162 No. 11 |
| | In his modest office, Kan, 56, spoke with TIME Tokyo bureau chief Jim Frederick about the new Democratic Party and how he hopes to take on Koizumi in the general elections likely to take place this fall. | | | last month, opposition icon and democratic party leader Naoto Kan joined forces with Ichiro Ozawa, head of the Liberal Party. | | | Kan: He will look to me to be the representative of the party and to take leadership. |
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http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/printout/0,13675,501030922-485789,00.html
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| | TIME Asia Magazine: Get This Party Started -- Nov. 10, 2003 |
| | For years, these rivals had led Japan's two major opposition parties, each a sworn enemy of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) that has ruled the country almost continuously for 48 years. | | | So Ozawa agreed to let his Liberal Party be acquired by Kan's Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). | | | "There has never been a major political power shift between the ruling party and the opposition party," Ozawa told TIME shortly before the merger. |
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http://time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501031110-536272,00.html
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| | Pravda.RU The return of Japan’s imperial ambition: Japan wants to be a nuclear power |
| | The politician added that his speech was supposed to make China establish closer cooperation with Japan. | | | As The Times wrote, the leader of the Liberal Party, Ichiro Ozawa, claimed last week that Japan was ready to start the production of thousands of nuclear warheads in order to be able to oppose China’s growing military power. | | | However, this is not a point for the Japanese government to stop at. |
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http://english.pravda.ru/world/2002/04/08/27428.html
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| | NCI document |
| | "Ozawa is right to state the potential of Japan to use its so-called peaceful | | | Ichiro Ozawa, the leader of the opposition Liberal party, made the | | | Mr Ozawa is known for rocking the boat with his uncompromising |
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http://www.nci.org/02NCI/04/japan-articles.htm
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| | Asiaweek.com |
| | Ozawa, 53, who has spent most of his political career as a backroom strategist, a kingmaker in the shadows. | | | Yet he is capable of conciliation, as he showed within his own party after his recent election victory. | | | Ozawa Ichiro, a longtime Liberal Democrat who now heads the opposition Shinshinto, or New Frontier Party (NFP). |
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http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/96/0112/ed.html
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| | Five parties emerging from Shinshinto's ashes (The Japan Times) Dec. 29, 1997 |
| | Ozawa, who was re-elected to a two-year term as Shinshinto president on Dec. 18, triggered the turmoil Saturday by disbanding the party, which he helped found three years ago. | | | Ozawa on Monday reiterated his hope to assume power with the creation of his new party, which will be launched Jan. 6. | | | He also said his new party will have a shadow Cabinet, which will have decision-making power over the party's policies and will be responsible for party management, he added. |
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http://vikingphoenix.com/news/archives/1997/japan/jp970081.htm
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| | US belligerence encourages Japanese politician to rattle the nuclear sabre against China |
| | Ozawa was not alone in his militarist comments. | | | Efforts were made in the Japanese and American press to downplay the significance of Ozawa’s statement on the grounds that he is not part of the government. | | | Several days later, Ozawa claimed that his remarks had been “dreadfully distorted” but effectively repeated the message. |
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/apr2002/jap-a22.shtml
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| | Mr Ozawa, whose party ranks fourth in terms of seats held, defected from the Liberal Democratic Party in 1993, leading a walk-out that pushed the LDP from power for the first time since its formation in 1955. | | | Japan, which has a war-renouncing constitution and limits its forces to self-defence, also has a policy of no nuclear weapons. | | | An MP from his party was forced to resign a junior defence post in 1999 after calling for a debate on whether Japan should develop a nuclear deterrent. |
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http://www.theage.com.au/cgi-bin/common/printArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/04/08/1017206310185.html
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| | NCI document |
| | "Ozawa is right to state the potential of Japan to use its so-called peaceful | | | Edwin Lyman, an NCI scientific director who is soon to be its president, said | | | In a lecture given in Fukuoka on Saturday, Ozawa, leader of the Liberal Party, |
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http://www.nci.org/02/04f/09-13.htm
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| | Japan Times: Ozawa sees Liberal-LDP bloc ending society's 'fast decline |
| | The Liberal Party has to work harder to structurally reform society now that it is a governing partner of the Liberal Democratic Party, Ichiro Ozawa, head of the Liberal Party, said Monday. | | | In his speech, Ozawa said his party will put forward a discussion on the Constitution, saying Japan has a crucial flaw in how it deals with the document. | | | It was the second party convention for the Liberal Party, which was formed in January 1998 following the previous month's dissolution of Shinshinto, then the largest opposition party and also headed by Ozawa. |
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http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/makeprfy.pl5?nn19990607a1.htm
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| | Asia Times: Japan: It's the electorate, stupid! |
| | Once again Liberal Party President Ichiro Ozawa is threatening to withdraw his party from the tri-partite coalition government ruling Japan - perhaps as early as the end of this month. | | | The LDP and New Komeito have zeroed in on that sentiment and thus are backtracking on reform in advance of the fall elections. | | | The government of Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi surely needs a wake-up call, and a strong one at that. |
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http://www.atimes.com/editor/BC28Ba01.html
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| | Japan Policy & Politics: Ozawa urges DPJ to prepare for taking political power |
| | Ozawa also said the opposition forces will force the dissolution of the House of Representatives for a snap general election before the end of this year by preventing important bills from passing the Diet. | | | Liberal Party leader Ichiro Ozawa urged young lawmakers in the fellow opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) on Wednesday to prepare well for this summer's House of Councillors election, calling it the opposition camp's ''last chance'' to seize power. | | | After that, those who have been elected can decide which party they belong to,'' Ozawa said. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2001_March_26/ai_72698096
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