its leader, yukio hatoyama, became japan's 93rd prime minister. he started off his ambitious agenda by launching a task force aimed at identifying wasteful government spending. the process was open to the public and gained strong support from the people. however, things soon went sour when two political funding scandals rocked the hatoyama administration. an investigation revealed that hatoyama's mother had been giving him substantial donations for many years. he denied any knowledge of the funds. but he paid gift taxes on the money anyway. the second political funding scandal involved ichiro ozawa, the democratic party's secretary-general at the time. three of his former aides were prosecuted for falsifying reports on a land purchase made by ozawa's fund management group. though prosecutors decided not to indict ozawa, a prosecution inquest panel is examining the case to determine whether he should face mandatory indictm t indictment. an issue involving the relocation of the u.s. marine corps futenma air station in okinawa also had a negative imp

hatoyama replaced him.victory i election in august 2009. it ended the ldp's almost half assistant of rule. ozawa went on to become the dpj secretary general. but in june, political funding scandals again forced ozawa to resign, together with prime minister hatoyama. with hatoyama gone, kan took over, becoming japan's fifth leader in just four years. right away, kan tried to distance himself from ozawa to show the public that the party was determined to keep politics clean. >> translator: azozawa had bett be keep for a while. it will be good for ozawa himself, the democratic party and japanese politics. >> what could be the possible outcome of this leadership election? >> well, kan is a lot more popular than ozawa among japanese people. so as far as votes from local supporters go, kan will be able to win a lot more votes than ozau youa. but when it comes to votes from the 412-rtylawmers, owa seems to be in the lead so far. he has his own faction of 150 lawmakers. former prime minister hatoyama, who supports ozawa, has a group of about 60 law

then former prime minister hatoyama volunteered to be a mediator between ozawa and kan. he suggested to kan that ozawa wouldn't run against him for the party leadership if kan gave him another important post in the party. but kan refused to give in to ozawa. >> translator: it's time to get rid of the old type of politics which so often involves financial scandals. >> reporter: and so the race to lead the democrats in japan was on. the public didn't seem enthusiastic. >> translator: they cannot afford to fight within the party when the japanese economy is in trouble. i just hope they will make a decision soon and do what is good for the country. >> reporter: ozawa and kan started to rally support. ozawa visited every dpj lawmaker. he also went out to meet people across japan in cities and the country side. >> translator: if i become prime minister, i'll devote my political life, even my own life, to the job. >> reporter: ozawa expressed concern about japan's economic outlook with the yen getting stronger. he said he wanted more stimulus measures. >> translator: our priori

after hatoyama resigned. his first few months in office have been tough. the dpj suffered a major setback in july's upper house election. then kan had to devote time to this two-week leadership campaign. now that he's staying on as prime minister, kan is expected to push ahead with his economic recovery plans. >>> u.s. assistance secretary of state phillip crowly did not make an official comment on kan's re-election but says the two countries will continue to cooperate on relocating the u.s. marine corps futenma air station in okinawa. >> we have a realignment plan. it is a government-to-government agreement, and we will continue to move forward with japan according to this plan. >> the chinese foreign ministry also did not comment on tuesday's election, saying it was japan's domestic affair. some chinese officials say they're puzzled to have seen two prime ministers in the past year under the democratic government. they say they're watching closely to see if the election will stabilize japan's administration. the south korean government has not released a

we're also expecting a south korean president lee myung bak former japanese prime minister yukio hatoyama as well as prime minister silvio berlusconi so we'll have a lot of big names we expect them to be sitting down with each other talking about the issues that were brought up yesterday we expect them to be briefed about the results of the working sessions yesterday with topics ranging from terrorism organized crime energy security as well as climate change and today as specifically for today on the table is an investigative panel on the treaty on the european security it basically is about infrastructure a political infrastructure of the euro policy in terms of security cooperation between the countries now this idea was brought about by russian president dmitry medvedev two years ago and in two thousand and nine they drafted russia drafted a proposal and so today it's being laid out on the table and we have a large contingent from asia and europe and it is going to be on the international table for discussion it will be analyzed they will look at the pros and the cons of whether it is

we're also expecting a korean president lee myung bak and a former japanese prime minister yukio hatoyama and of course italian prime minister silvio berlusconi so we have a large contingent from asia and from western europe of course we also have representatives from the un and nato so we expect the head of state to be sitting down with each other having one of one conversations and we also expected to be briefed on the work concessions that took place yesterday that discuss terrorism security energy energy security that is organized crime among other things but today there is one agenda on the table and that it's going to be investigative panel on the treaty of european security if you recall this idea was proposed by russian president medvedev in two thousand and eight and the draft was made in two thousand and nine by russia now although this is a russian initiative it has been put on the international table for discussion and the discussion is whether a new framework a new architecture of security should be formed within the euro area now some people are saying that perhaps we should

president of the head of to be heated on the sidelines also have former japanese prime minister yukio hatoyama as well as italian prime minister silvio berlusconi here actually there's really a sense of anticipation everyone is waiting for of russian president dmitry medvedev speech and it's largely expected that it will be based on his russia article that he had written and also today the agenda that's been set is very specific it's about it's an intersection on be a treaty of european security so here they're talking about a common cooperation coming up with possibly a new framework where european countries at euro atlantic areas would cooperate on issues of security and there are a lot of other topics that came from the working sessions yesterday covering terrorism organized crime even climate change and energy security and a lot of interesting debate and opinions have been coming out here let's hear from the. liberal democratic party leader and the state duma deputy chairman. why isn't anyone talking about and evaluating the builder birth group to get together once a year and the decisions