Ichiro Ozawa, one of the most powerful figures in the Democratic Party of Japan, remained evasive Wednesday on whether he will run against Prime Minister Naoto Kan in the Sept. 14 DPJ presidential election.
Ozawa said at a political seminar he organized Wednesday in Tokyo that it wasn't the right place to "talk about juicy political matters" of recent days.
During talks with Kan's predecessor, Yukio Hatoyama, on Tuesday night, Ozawa said he could decide whether to run in the September election as early as Wednesday, according to former Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano, who attended the two-hour meeting.