If Ozawa really wanted to give Hatoyama a chance to succeed, he would retire and go play golf somewhere away from the cameras. But he won’t.
Hatoyama is his toy and by golly he is going to be on hand to pull the strings whenever he so desires.
Or, at least, that’s the way my Japanese friends see it.
It’s Takeshita and Kanamaru all over again. They’ve seen the movie before.