Ichiro Ozawa
March 14, 2013
The Tokyo High Court upheld guilty verdicts on March 13 for three former aides of political heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa over falsified reporting of his fund management body's...
December 29, 2012
The anti-nuclear Tomorrow Party of Japan has already disintegrated.
December 01, 2012
Yukiko Kada, an anti-nuclear governor now at the center of national attention, is coming to grips with the fact her newly formed Nippon Mirai no To (Japan Future Party) is...
November 20, 2012
Two veteran politicians hoping to draw support for their small parties are drawing a line in the sand against nuclear power, a key issue in the Dec. 16 Lower House election.
November 19, 2012
Lawyers serving as prosecutors on Nov. 19 decided against appealing a political fund reporting case involving political heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa to the Supreme Court, a week...
November 13, 2012
Once on the verge of becoming prime minister, prolonged investigations and a court fight over a land deal have taken a toll on Ichiro Ozawa, now a scarred political heavyweight ...
November 12, 2012
In a ruling reaffirming his innocence more explicitly than a lower court did in April, the Tokyo High Court on Nov. 12 found political heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa not guilty of...
October 30, 2012
Japan's ruling coalition is on the brink of losing its Lower House majority as two more members defected, and smaller parties scramble to build alliances ahead of a looming...
September 11, 2012
The ruling Democratic Party of Japan has announced it will hold an election to choose a new party leader on Sept. 21.
August 26, 2012
This is Japan's summer of discontent. Tens of thousands of protesters--the largest demonstrations the country has seen in decades--descend on Tokyo every Friday evening to...
August 02, 2012
Veteran powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa said Aug. 1 his new party would campaign for all nuclear power plants to be abolished within 10 years.
July 11, 2012
Japanese political veteran Ichiro Ozawa and dozens of other lawmakers who quit the ruling party over a tax hike plan launched a new party on July 11 in a bid to challenge the...
July 04, 2012
Japanese political heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa and dozens of other members of parliament who quit the ruling party in protest over a planned sales tax increase decided on July 4...
July 03, 2012
In June 1993, 54 lawmakers bolted from the ruling party, which was replaced by a coalition government two months later. Nearly two decades later, on July 2, 50 lawmakers left...
July 03, 2012
Veteran political fixer Ichiro Ozawa and 49 loyalists effectively resigned from the ruling Democratic Party of Japan on July 2.
July 03, 2012
As a child, I once bought "colored chicks" at a festival stall. At first, I found my new pets amusing, but soon I was disillusioned as I realized that the young birds had been...
July 02, 2012
Political kingmaker Ichiro Ozawa took a step toward forming a new party when he and 49 other lawmakers submitted letters of resignation to the ruling Democratic Party of Japan...
June 30, 2012
Political heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa said he will wait until July 2 to decide whether to throw the ruling party in disarray by leaving to protest Prime Minister Yoshihiko...
June 29, 2012
After years of policy paralysis in Japan, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has pushed a much-needed but unpopular sales tax hike through the lower house of parliament, but the...
June 28, 2012
An overwhelming 78 percent of voters do not expect much from a new party that political heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa says he may form, as opposed to 15 percent who do, an Asahi...