TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese ruling party powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa will run in a party leadership vote on Sept. 14 in a challenge to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, Kyodo news agency and other Japanese media said on Thursday.
His candidacy risks a bitter battle within the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) as it tries to deal with a soaring yen and a fragile economic recovery.
Japan's ruling Democratic Party former secretary general Ichiro Ozawa delivers a speech at a political seminar in Tokyo August 25, 2010. Japanese ruling party powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa will run in a party leadership vote on Sept. 14 in a challenge to Prime Minister Naoto Kan. (REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao)
The head of the DPJ will be the prime minister by virtue of the party's majority in the parliament's powerful lower house.
Veteran lawmaker Ozawa, who stepped down last year as party leader after a political funding scandal, has been an outspoken critic of Kan's decision to float the idea of a future sales tax hike ahead of a July upper house election, which the party lost.
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