Ozawa's fund body allegedly hid Y2.3 million in donations

Tuesday 24th November, 06:54 AM JST

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wanderlust at 07:57 AM JST - 24th November

The cabinet secretary takes 120 million yen a month for spending with no receipts and no accountability. 2.3 million over three years is peanuts, even by Ozawa's voracious standards.
BigInJapan at 08:25 AM JST - 24th November

How lucky we are he is a Buddhist with strong moral standards and not a Christian or Mohammedan.
johnnyreb at 08:31 AM JST - 24th November

he seems like he is being very exclusive and self-righteous in hiding ¥2.3 million in donations.
pathat at 08:50 AM JST - 24th November

The ubiquitous "secretary" always takes the fall.
tkoind2 at 09:35 AM JST - 24th November

Is Ozawa secretly working for the LDP? I mean this guy seems out to kill the DPJ.
The758 at 09:42 AM JST - 24th November

The ubiquitous "secretary" always takes the fall.

Yeah, really. In Japan the top brass is supposed to take the blame for things. Fancy this guy telling Japan that it's lost its values: he's the poster boy.
hanadecaka at 09:54 AM JST - 24th November

All political party are same in Japan.They do not speak truth.
tkoind2 at 10:20 AM JST - 24th November

"All political party are same in Japan.They do not speak truth."

Very true. The question is, why don't Japanese people do something about this situation? Why don't people form new parties and oust the corrupt ones? Why don't people take a more active interests in their own political well being? Why do people elect the same guys even after they know they don't serve the public good?

I am a foreigner so I can't raise a party or run for office. But if I could I would form a party focused on the needs of working class people and staff it with politicians who are willing to put the needs of regular people ahead of their own. I would find them from town hall meetings held in local communities to find intelligent and capable people are are responsible to their local communities and dependent upon the outcome as much as their constituents.

Representative government is just that. If you choose to represent yourselves with corrupt out of touch old men, then you can only blame yourselves when they betray you. If you choose to represent yourselves with peers who have the burden of responsiblity to their community and a desire to do the right thing, then you can take pride in the fact that your vote and activism made a difference.

The choice is yours. Stop saying shoganai and get off your behind and make a difference. The outcome depends on each and very one person.
gogogo at 10:38 AM JST - 24th November

All in the Japanese government are corrupt, the other party just sits there looking for cracks and after 12 months bam a new PM.
Junnama at 10:44 AM JST - 24th November

Wow, 2.3 million!! What is that like $25,000? That could be a rounding error couldn't it?
mindovermatter at 10:53 AM JST - 24th November

This DPJ will be out of office within a couple years, all they know, is that they don't want to do anything that the LDP did...

Considering Hatoyama is part of the new generation of white-washed history believers, how anyone can believe he's out to change the status quo, when he was raised by politicians, into a political family, born with a silver spoon in his mouth... His only platform is doesn't want to do anything the LDP did.... And Japan can do it alone, we don't need the U.S. for anything, except, we want to keep their markets open for out products... ha ha ha... Good luck!
bobbafett at 11:24 AM JST - 24th November

Very true. The question is, why don't Japanese people do something about this situation? Why don't people form new parties and oust the corrupt ones?

because politicians are puppets. The bureaucrats run things via mass media. The bureaucrats are releasing this data on Ozawa and Hatoyama as they have pledged to fight the bureaucrats.

They have since gone back on this and have done nothing but what they are expected to do by the bureaucrats including appointing ex bureaucrats to Japan post and to the crippled pension system, including some who were caught stealing and manipulation the pension system for their friends and families.

The object of the bureaucrats is to have mass media get the LDP back in charge of the lower house in the next elections. The LDP was ousted to teach them a lesson by the bureaucrats.

I hope the Japanese people see through all of this and vote socialist, and that the bureaucrats are arrested and dealt with Chinese Democracy style for the continued raping and destruction of Japan.
stirfry at 01:47 PM JST - 24th November

admitting to 2.3 means the real number is likely 10 times that
smithinjapan at 01:57 PM JST - 24th November

tkoind: It is, of course, never so simple, else I'm sure a better party would have taken the reigns long ago and kept it. The problem is, as we are seeing with the DPJ now that they are in power and breaking a number of their promises, they are indeed, as bobbafett says, controlled by bureaucrats and large companies. I have absolutely no doubt that when up-and-coming politicians begin their careers they strive to clean up politics, but they would indeed be the nail that gets hammered down and would be driven out or forced to assimilate in no time flat.

You can't just demand a better system because the people who have the ultimate say are too entrenched in the ways of old. In short, they won't let it happen. Japan is not the only nation like this, either, but it just happens that the DPJ and LDP are far more alike than the two main parties of other nations.
NetteMarie at 07:40 PM JST - 24th November

Just Japanese culture, huh, Ozawa?