Ozawa asks support for DPJ leadership election

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa, powerful lawmaker of the Democratic Party of Japan, and Ryoko Tani, popular Olympic gold medalist judo wrestler and a rookie upper house lawmaker, shake hands at a Diet member building in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2010. Ozawa visited DPJ lawmakers to ask for their support in the Sept. 14 presidential election of the ruling party, in which he will run against Prime Minister Naoto Kan.

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