Prime Minister Shinzo Abe¡¯s economic policies cater to big business at the expense of the people and will only widen the wealth disparity between rich and poor, Seikatsu no To (People¡¯s Life Party) President Ichiro Ozawa said in a recent interview.
¡°You need to prepare a safety net (to save the weak). Otherwise, you don¡¯t need politics,¡± Ozawa told The Japan Times and other media outlets in a joint interview Wednesday in Tokyo.
¡°We have (policy) ideas antithetical to Abe¡¯s. We want to appeal to (voters) with those policies,¡± he said.
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