Bowing to public and peer pressure, Ichiro Ozawa yesterday announced he would resign as president of Japan's main opposition party after failing to quell criticism over the arrest of a top aide in a fundraising scandal.
Mr Ozawa's departure gives his Democratic Party of Japan a chance to regain momentum in its campaign to oust Japan's long ruling Liberal Democratic party at a looming general election.
At a press conference, Mr Ozawa, a former leading LDP member who has been a dominant force in the Japanese opposition since the early 1990s, said he was sacrificing himself for “party unity”.
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