Ichiro Ozawa is a highly influential lawmaker known within the ruling Democratic Party of Japan as the "shadow shogun". He led the party until May 2009 and is credited with positioning it for victory in polls just three months later, ending the Liberal Democratic Party's half-century rule. But the man who appeared on course to become prime minister had to step down before the elections because of a funding scandal. And while he commands the respect of a sizeable faction in...
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