OZAWA OPENS POLICY DEBATES AT JAPAN'S PARLIAMENT
Shoichi Nakagawa, chairman of Policy Research Council of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, addresses questions to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe regarding his Policy Speech, which Abe made Friday, at the regular session of the House of Representatives in Tokyo, Japan, on January 29 2007. (UPI Photo/Keizo Mori)
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