TOKYO — The chief rival to Japan’s prime minister tried his best to wreak havoc Monday by quitting the ruling party in protest of a tax increase and encouraging other lawmakers to do the same. But the defection of power broker Ichiro Ozawa and 49 of his loyalists failed to strike a critical blow to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, whose party emerged from this long-anticipated rebellion with its majority intact.

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