Published: February 9, 2010
Japan’s most influential political leader, Ichiro Ozawa, said Monday that he would keep his formal job as the No. 2 leader of the governing Democratic Party after prosecutors decided not to charge him in a financing scandal.
Mr. Ozawa, who was the architect of his party’s election victory last summer, said that the prosecutors’ decision proved his innocence. But recent polls show that about three-quarters of Japanese think he should resign.
A version of this article appeared in print on February 9, 2010, on page A11 of the New York edition.
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