and Secretary General Yukio Hatoyama during a party convention Monday in Tokyo. YOSHIAKI MIURA PHOTO

"Our goal at the DPJ is to take over power and create a new Japan by breaking from the past and vested interests. This is real reform," Ozawa said at the meeting.

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