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TOKYO (AFP) - – A split in Japan's centre-left ruling party deepened on Tuesday when it suspended the membership of the prime minister's key rival, faction boss Ichiro Ozawa, who faces charges over a funding scandal.
 
Prime Minister Naoto Kan -- battling cabinet approval ratings below 20 percent and the threat of parliamentary gridlock -- last week faced down a revolt by 16 Ozawa supporters who threatened not to vote with the government.
 
Ozawa, a veteran backroom fixer sometimes dubbed the "Shadow Shogun", last year failed in a bid to topple Kan as head of the Democratic Party of Japan and prime minister but has remained a thorn in his side since then.
 
A scandal over political funding irregularities has long hung over his head and given ammunition to the conservative opposition, which has also threatened to block key budget financing bills in the divided Diet legislature.
 
Prosecutors in January indicted Ozawa, 68, over the affair, in which he and three former aides who also face trial deny any wrongdoing.
 
Ozawa, in talks with the DPJ's ethics panel, said there was "no rational reason" he should be suspended.
 
Kan's DPJ has repeatedly urged Ozawa to stand down while he faces trial, worried the scandal will taint it with the whiff of Japan's old-style backroom money politics.
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
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