Differences in revising the nation's pacifist Constitution, particularly its war-renouncing Article 9, mean the Democratic Party of Japan will not seek to align itself with the Japan Restoration Party in this summer's Upper House election.
At an April 1 news conference, DPJ Secretary-General Goshi Hosono said the Restoration Party was a "carbon copy" of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in its stance on constitutional revision. DPJ executives agreed on April 1 not to cooperate with the Restoration Party in the Upper House election, a move that severely divides the opposition camp and ...