Ex-PM Noda top choice to lead Japan's main opposition party: poll

Why Noda? The opposition would have remained in power for much longer and actually been able to accomplish something if Noda hadn’t called for a snap election.

Oh my god! This is the man who handed power back to the LDP with a landslide AND wrote a book about it gloating about how he did it. He was an assassin candidate for the LDP and the opposition wants him to lead them??

The opposition is a joke.

Depressing. No viable opposition it sight. Recycling a failed leader is really pathetic. The country is doomed.

I can't imagine what these people are thinking. They seem to be happy to just keep running with losers.

Oh my god! This is the man who handed power back to the LDP with a landslide AND wrote a book about it gloating about how he did it. He was an assassin candidate for the LDP and the opposition wants him to lead them??

Exactly right. Both CDP and LDP need some young ( relatively ) blood in leadership ranks. Not the same old guard.