Alliance negotiations between 2 Japanese opposition parties break down

The Party of Hope is LDP light. That's why they took a thrashing at the last election.

including former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and former Deputy Prime Minister Katsuya Okada, have decided to try to form an alliance with the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan.

Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan- DO NOT form an alliance with Noda. This man is the reason the DPJ lost the election to Abe. This buffoon seems to find all the worthy adversaries of the LDP and makes them crash and burn (think Renho). Okada is better, in that he is westernized and knows how to deal with foreign policy effectively, but his role should be as foreign minister in charge of relations with the west. He seems adept at that.

The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan did well in the last election because they were purely a left wing progressive party. Their success in such a short period of time highlights how HUNGRY the J public is for a real and viable progressive party. If they start to bring in anyone and everyone from the DP, its going to be the same as the old DPJ, and they will not have a prayer against the Abe machine. They need to hold fast to their liberal left wing policies and highlight them in the next election. NO compromises should be made to form alliances; that will result in the sabotage of their party.

This man is the reason the DPJ lost the election to Abe. 

Noda was just leader when that happened. He is a good man. Abe lied to him, and he believed Abe.

Loopy Hatoyama was more to blame, but general DPJ disorganization and lack of direction was the prime factor, I believe.

Still, someone needs to teach these clowns how democracy is supposed to work. The Japanese way of getting all cozy with your competitors and trying to cooperate for the simple purpose of acquiring power for your group, is not how democracy is supposed to work.

You are supposed to have parties formed based on policies, and then you battle it out for support based on how popular your policies are. If your policies are unpopular, you do not get to cozy up with other more popular parties. Instead your party dies, or at best, stays unpopular.

What Japan needs most of all is a small government party, that says "You and we are all adults! You can keep more of your money in return for taking care of yourself, rather than entrusting yourselves to we incomptents in politics and central bureacracy!"

It would be small government policy, versus the big government policy that all the main parties we have now represent.

I am sick of hearing about scandals that only occur because Japan is mired with big government and the pandering to special interests that comes with it. (That "cross-party manga caucus" story the other day really hacked me off. None of us need these clowns.)

I'd like to see these parties put up their own candidates at each election and clearly explain their policies and the differences between them. I don't want to see them manoeuvering and trying to form groups when they disagree on too many things. They spend more time posturing and reorganising themselves than they do opposing the government. Utterly useless.

Noda was just leader when that happened. He is a good man. Abe lied to him, and he believed Abe.

While I have no doubt that Abe is a liar, Noda was also to blame. I think he was working with the LDP to destroy the opposition from the inside. The proof:

He wrote a book entitled Enemy of the DPJ: Government Change Has a Good Cause.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihiko_Noda

Pretty much admitted it.

Loopy Hatoyama was more to blame, but general DPJ disorganization and lack of direction was the prime factor, I believe.

No it wasn't. It was the stonewalling of the LDP and partisan politics they played that got them that win. The Japanese public was stupid enough to reward the dirty underhanded politics of the LDP with a resounding win. That, my friend, is the reason.

Noda received praise for passing the consumption tax hike despite intense opposition, but was also criticized for bringing the DPJ closer in substance to its rival LDP, rather than keeping the campaign promises by which it defeated the LDP in 2009.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihiko_Noda

As this election also showed with Koike and her hope party, when you start to get closer to the LDP, you burn your party to the ground. That's what Noda did, and did deliberately as proven by the title of his book listed above.

One commentator called him "the best prime minister the LDP never had."[

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihiko_Noda

DPJ splitter from LDP many many years ago. Koike used to. be LDP member, was the best minister of JSD ministry. Kind hard to create a new party.

Except Communist Party and Socialist Party, others are all Conservative peoples griping chat clubs.

When DPJ used Democratic as party name, the party added L. L has been liberal but Jiyu meant Freedom after DPJ was created.

These new party organizers. are more interested in becoming the chair of a party than organizing new party structure. They are not interested in nurturing members to bed come future party leader. LDP era will continue.