This book provides insights into the inner workings of Japanese politics by examining the political goals, behaviour, methods and practices of Japan's most famous politician of the current era - Ozawa Ichiro. These aspects of Japanese politics are analysed within the conceptual framework of 'old' and 'new' politics, which encapsulates Ozawa's efforts to accomplish key political and economic reforms on the one hand, and on the other, the reality of the 'Ozawa way', which serves to entrench existing political structures, modes and conventions.