Intrigued foreign observers wishing to learn more about the man who engineered the Democratic Party of Japan’s stunning electoral victory on Sunday would have been disappointed. As his party celebrated what, by some measures, was the most humiliating blow to the ruling Liberal Democratic party in its 52-year history, Ichiro Ozawa, the wily DPJ leader who made it possible, disappeared entirely from sight. とか、 Mr Ozawa, 65, is a curious figure. A classic old-style LDP politician from a rural constituency of the sort that honed money politics to a fine art, ・・・ とか、 People who know him say he has an encyclopedic knowledge of the Japanese political scene and describe him as a brilliant manipulator and tactician. But he is also said to be leery of meeting new people. His absence from parliamentary sessions has often been noted. But now we know the reason why: he was busy in the countryside plotting the downfall of the LDP.