should form a special organ for the United Nations, which comes under direct control of the U.N. secretary general," Ozawa writes. As for the SDF, it "should remain dedicated to defending the nation."
Ozawa has long called for the creation of such a U.N. standby force, but this time he clarifies that personnel and equipment should be provided by Japan.
In calling for farm-sector reforms to raise Japan's food self-sufficiency ratio, he proposes a system under which the government calculates the production cost of major farm products and, if the market price is below the cost, pays farmers the difference.
The book lashes out at Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's five years of structural reforms for "imposing a burden on the large majority group of (society's) losers in the name of market principles and free competition."
Praising Japanese companies' traditional seniority-based and career-long employment system as a "safety net for the working population," Ozawa calls for such mechanisms to rectify economic disparities in society.
On Yasukuni Shrine, Ozawa says in the book "the problem is that the so-called Class-A war criminals are honored at Yasukuni Shrine, which is a shrine for honoring the war dead."
He proposes legislation in the book to clarify that the government is responsible for compulsory education. He also recommends the appointment of large numbers of lawmakers from the ruling camp to government posts so the two sides can work in complete unity.
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