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The Democratic Party of Japan is trying to play off Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii’s resignation as the peaceful retirement of an old man<\/a>.<\/p>\n But Fujii’s ouster had more to do with his open criticism of party boss Ichiro Ozawa, according to The Japan Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fujii had criticized the so-called shadow shogun, aka the puppet master of the Cabinet, for his involvement in a campaign finance scandal last summer.<\/p>\n The feud will damage the party’s image at a critical moment, when President Hatoyama is presenting his 2010 budget and an ambitious plan to revive the country’s long-suffering economy.<\/p>\n Read more at The Japan Times –><\/a><\/p>\n Join the conversation about this story »<\/a><\/p>\n See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n The Democratic Party of Japan is trying to play off Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii’s resignation as the peaceful retirement of an old man. But Fujii’s ouster had more to do with his open criticism of party boss Ichiro Ozawa, according to The Japan Times. Fujii had criticized the so-called shadow shogun, aka the puppet master […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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