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...Japan (DPJ), has been a behind-the-scenes political player for more than 20 years. But the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan is losing its grip on power, and Ozawa might be stepping into the premiership after the next general election. At his office in DPJ headquarters in Nagatacho, the heart of Tokyo government, Ozawa spoke with TIME's Michael Elliott and Coco Masters about reforming the economy, the trouble with bureaucrats and U.S.-Japan cooperation. (Read "Ozawa: The Man Who Wants to Save Japan...
...that had its own interests, in which national goals were set by its elected politicians, and in which the bureaucracy's job was to implement a political program rather than shape policy themselves. During his interview with TIME, held in the DPJ's modest headquarters in Tokyo's Nagatacho district, Ozawa was asked if his analysis of the need for Japan to be a "normal country" was still relevant. "Totally relevant," he said with emphasis. "We have to make a fundamental change to the current system in which the government is led primarily by the bureaucracy, and we have...
That observation underlines both Hosokawa's strength and his weakness: he is still a neophyte, who has come late to the temptations of Nagatacho, Tokyo's political district. "Hosokawa did not seek the office of Prime Minister; his coalition allies asked him to take the job," recalls Kazuo Nukazawa, a managing director at Keidanren. "Unlike all the Prime Ministers before him, he has no debts to pay." Last week he showed he could marshal all the energy of his youth, without overweening rashness or inexperienced disarray. It was only a first step. But it was the step without which there...
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