Ichiro Ozawa

03 Oct 1994 12:02

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By all reports, Mr. Ozawa is a Power That Be among the Japanese reformists, and a very curious character: ``The name of the new block, Kaishin, literally means `innovation', but it harks back to a seventh-century coup in which an anti-reform regent was slashed to death by impatient modernizers.'' (Let us here no more about Oriental subtlety!)

See:
• The Economist, ``Japan's Intellectual Revolution''
• There was also a good, and predictable negative, article in The Nation, but I can't find the cite right now.

To read:
• Ichiro Ozawa. Blueprint for a New Japan His propaganda-piece, which has sold more than 600,000 copies in Japan.