Ichiro Ozawa has been a well known politician for decades, and is considered now he is the substantial Prime Minister of Japan.
Last year's historical victory of the Democratic Party of Japan for the election for House of Representatives is considered mostly thanks to the leadership of Ichiro Ozawa.
And the yearly budget for 2010 is considered to be made under strong leadership of Ichiro Ozawa, while incumbent PM Yukio Hatoyama could not show any leadership for the budgeting process.
(In this early January, he visited China being accompanied by "600!!" policy makers, included newly elected lawmakers. That's the evidence how influential he is at the moment.)
So, DPJ is really expecting Ichiro Ozawa's leadership and ability for next year's election for House of Council, so that DPJ can rule the majority of the House of Council, which enables DPJ to pass the laws without help from other parties.
However, he is also well-known as a person who treat the his opponents very badly even if such opponents are in the same party.
Also, he does not like to show up in the media and talk to the citizens directly. From my perspective, his leadership is old type.
If he ended up resigning his position, it will have a great impact for the future of Japan.
Although he is denying all the suspcions posed by inspectors, and many politcians, including cabinet members are supporting Ichiro Ozawa.
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