and Naoto Kan face reporters separately in Tokyo.

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Ozawa, 63, a former Liberal Democratic Party heavyweight with a reputation for backroom dealing, and Kan, 59, two-time DPJ president and ex-health minister, held separate news conferences to announce they would run in Friday's presidential poll.

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