Ozawa pushing for DPJ split over sales tax hike plan

TOKYO, Japan - Former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa heads for a meeting of his political faction at a Diet building in Tokyo on June 22, 2012. Ozawa referred the previous day to the possibility of creating a new party unless Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's government drops its proposal to raise the consumption tax rate.

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