Common sense tells us it's been set for Mr. Ichiro Ozawa to stay on.

Now is a time of crisis for our party. It is necessary to ask someone who has a lot of experience to take over and do the job.

Far more than 70 percent of the people in this country ... want the Mori government to step down just as quickly as possible.

Now the echo of your anger toward the coalition system which centers on Mori and the Liberal Democratic Party is spreading across the whole country.

The government bowed to U.S. pressure and put President Bush's wishes ahead of the safety of Japanese consumers. I consider that a huge error of judgment.

This was a huge miss on the part of the government.