Democratic Party of Japan President Banri Kaieda on Saturday admitted that the opposition camp¡¯s leading force hasn¡¯t regained enough credibility to lead the charge against the ruling Liberal Democratic Party for the Upper House election.
¡°The public¡¯s disappointment with us has not changed,¡± Kaieda said in an exclusive interview with The Japan Times, reflecting on last week¡¯s devastating Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election, where it lost almost two-thirds of its seats. ¡°The public does not trust us to be a strong opponent unless we restore this trust.¡±
Without a clear strategy, the DPJ can¡¯t do much more than criticize Prime Minister Shinzo Abe¡¯s economic plan, dubbed ¡°Abenomics,¡± for failing to bring about tangible economic benefits, such as wage hikes, in the run-up to next month¡¯s House of Councilors poll.
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