Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policies cater to big business at the expense of the people and will only widen the wealth disparity between rich and poor, Seikatsu no To (People's Life Party) President Ichiro Ozawa said in a recent interview.
"You need to prepare a safety net (to save the weak). Otherwise, you don't need politics," Ozawa told The Japan Times and other media outlets in a joint interview Wednesday in Tokyo.
"We have (policy) ideas antithetical to Abe's. We want to appeal to (voters) with those policies," he said.
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