Voters favor opposition over ruling party, poll shows

Those support levels are a joke, low for both parties. If they had a box "none of the above" I bet it would have got More than 50% support

It's almost a year since Noda became Prime Minister of Japan. Let him expire like a magazine subscription.

It's a good thing Minshuto was in power the last three years ... at least they tried to tell the truth about all the weird stuff (read: earthquake, tsunami, nuclear power reactors being destroyed) that happened. If the LDP had still been in power, they would have tried to keep everything bad a secret. If the LDP were in power, we'd know much less than what we now know.

From everything I hear and read, I gather that the LDP will be storming back into power once again. And then it will be back to the corrupt politicians once again running the country haphazardly ... and ignoring the desires of the people ... and pocketing all the spare change they can rake in (read: our tax money).

But if that's what the people of Japan want ... let them suffer. Of course, we living here will have to suffer along with them ...

So be it.

Politicans in Japan (and in many other countries, too): Ugh!

at least this shows that the public is intently watching the developments in this three-ring circus.

the numbers show that there is still a good chance for a party with a convincing platform to win a solid majority.

unfortunately, the coalescence of such a party is a mere phantasmagorical musing at this juncture.

I think Japan needs a "Green party" as opposed to a sunrise party or ganbatte niphon party or DPJ or LDP.

From everything I hear and read, I gather that the LDP will be storming back into power once again.

With just 23% support "storming" is hardly the word. There will just be yet another impotent coalition with a tenuous lower house majority, crippled as all the other parties gang up against it in the upper house. The only reason the LDP have any support at all is that three years out of power is clearly long enough for everyone to forget just how brazenly corrupt, venal and useless they are. In fairness to them, though, they've managed to hold on to one leader for the past three years and keep their internal divisions out of the spotlight. Not that this will help them when they're in charge again.

The prospects for a minority government irks me even further. It's bad enough for this country to let alone run a majority government. How long will it take to form an interim budget for a Tohoku reconstruction scheme on the plans? METI will be most delighted when the House can't arrive at a consensus on new policy.

I think Japan needs a "Green party" as opposed to a sunrise party or ganbatte niphon party or DPJ or LDP.

It does now. it's called "Midori no To" (Greens Japan).

I'd rather the Social Democratic Party or the Japanese Communist Party became the next ruling party!

At least either one could thaw the diplomatic ice with China and/or North Korea.