Ozawa ready to submit to questioning by prosecutors

Ozawa ready to submit to questioning by prosecutors

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa (L), kingpin of Japan's ruling Democratic Party of Japan, leaves his office in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Jan. 19, 2010. A source close to Ozawa, DPJ secretary general, said the same day he is ready to accept a request from prosecutors to submit to questioning over a shady land purchase made by his fund management body.

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