TOKYO
Mbt, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Secretary-general of the governing Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) Ichiro Ozawa said Monday that he believed he bore ultimate responsibility for any wrongdoing by aides working on his behalf, as an investigation is going into how his funding body paid for a piece of land in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward in 2004. Ozawa has come under increasing pressure in recent days to fully explain the actions of those working for him and to give the public a full explanation of his actions in 2004. At that time, Ozawa insists that he gave a former aide, DPJ upper house lawmaker Tomohiro Ishikawa
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