DPJ Battles On

TOKYO (Nikkei)--Democratic Party of Japan lawmakers are proposing a new Cabinet Office authority to sound the alert on wasteful spending.

TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Former Japanese ruling party chief Ichiro Ozawa on Thursday pleaded not guilty to charges that he violated the country's political funding law at the opening of his public trial, calling the trial an "abuse of state power."

TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Japanese opposition lawmakers asked Finance Minster Jun Azumi Thursday to once again seek global support for yen-selling intervention during the coming Group of 20 meeting, after he has scored no clear success on that mission at previous international meetings.