The Centrist Reform Alliance (CRA), a new opposition party formed between the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and Komeito, was officially launched Thursday with 227 candidates running in the Feb. 8 general election, as it aims to become the largest party in the Lower House.
But policy similarities with the ruling coalition and public confusion over what they get by voting for the CRA could make winning over voters difficult.
CRA co-leader Yoshihiko Noda pitched the party＊s middle way of politics as different from the kind of political movements other countries like the U.S. have seen.
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