The departure of both men allows the party to focus on restoring an image of cleanliness in government.

He won with a clean image and a promise to speed up economic ties to China, which has become Taiwan's biggest export market.

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With promises of a cleaner government, Hatoyama worked to shift the political dynamics in Japan by taking away power from the bureaucrats and granting more power to politicians and local governments.

Transparency International said it found a correlation between corporate bribery within a country and how clean public officials are perceived to be.