Who's in charge here? Jun Hongo argues in The Japan Times that it's Ichiro Ozawa who holds the power, and that can be most plainly seen in Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's flip-flop on a campaign pledge to cut a gas tax.
Morita seconds that opinion, telling Hongo: "Hatoyama is clearly just the head clerk of the administration."
It seems the change we voters believed in on both sides of the Pacific is little more than a change in rhetoric.
The author of Curing Japan's America Addiction (Chin Music Press) offers insight and commentary from Tokyo.
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