Japanese PM to stick with Ozawa despite funds scandal
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The Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama says he plans to have Ichiro Ozawa stay on as the ruling party's second in command despite his being embroiled in a funding scandal.
On Friday prosecutors searched Mr Ozawa's office and arrested a parliamentarian for accounting irregularities.
Mr Ozawa, the secretary-general of the ruling Democratic Party, has apologised for the affair and says there may have been miscalculations but denies any intentional wrong-doing.
The four month old Hatoyama government has seen its popularity level drop to 50 per cent from an initial 70 per cent.
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