Ichirō Ozawa (小沢 一郎 Ozawa Ichirō?, nacido el 24 de mayo de 1942) es un político japonés. Ha sido miembro de la Cámara de Representantes desde 1969, fue secretario jefe del Partido Liberal Democrático (PLD) pero luego renunció al partido. Fue presidente del Partido Democrático de Japón desde 2006 hasta 2009, en donde renunció luego de ser acusado por un escándalo de fondos, luego fue secretario general del partido desde 2009 hasta 2010, luego de la renuncia del Primer Ministro Yukio Hatoyama a los cargos de líder del partido y del país. Ozawa es considerado uno de los políticos más influyentes dento del Partido Democrático y del país. El 31 de enero de 2011 se le formularon cargos por evasión fiscal sobre unos terrenos en Tokio, valorados en casi 400 millones de yenes.

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Ichirō Ozawa (小沢 一郎 Ozawa Ichirō, born 24 May 1942) is a Japanese politician and has been a member of the House of Representatives since 1969, representing the Iwate 4th district (Iwate 2nd district prior to the 1996 general election). He is often dubbed the "Shadow Shogun" due to his back-room influence. He was initially a member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), serving as its secretary general from 1989 to 1991. He left the LDP in 1993 and subsequently served as head of a number of other political parties, first by co-founding the Japan Renewal Party with Tsutomu Hata, which formed a short-lived coalition government with several other parties opposed to the LDP. Ozawa later served as president of the opposition New Frontier Party from 1995 to 1997, president of the Liberal Party from 1998 to 2003 (which was part of a coalition government with the LDP of Keizō Obuchi from 1999 to 2000), president of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) from 2006 to 2009 and secretary-general of the DPJ in government from 2009 to 2010. In July 2012 he left the DPJ with around fifty followers to found the People's Life First party in a protest against the DPJ's plan to raise the Japanese consumption tax. Ozawa's party merged with the newly founded Tomorrow Party of Japan of Shiga governor Yukiko Kada prior to the 2012 general election, in which the party performed poorly. Ozawa and his followers then left to form the Life Party.

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