“I will return,” says Bo Xilai to his Japanese friend

Japan’s Yukan Fuji’s exclusive report: Mr. Udagawa’s exclusive interview with Bo Xilai under house arrest.

Core information: Mr. Udagawa is a Japanese reporter who is the first to successfully contact Bo since Bo was placed under house arrest. According to him, he exploited the State Security Department’s request for his assistance in the investigation to gain the opportunity to conduct the interview. When he had lunch with Bo, Bo mentioned Ichiro Ozawa who got the verdict of not guilty, and said that like Ozawa “he will return”.

The report was contributed by Mr. Udagawa and published on May 11, 2012.

At the end of last month, Mr. Udagawa of Diet of Japan News Agency met former Chongqing Party secretary Bo Xilai, who was regarded as a candidate for the next group of top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) but fell into disgrace last March. Mr. Udagawa is…