Abstract
In recent years in Japan, public support of opposition parties has tended to be extremely low. In the 2021 House of Representatives election, even among opposition parties, there were those, a traditional liberal opposition party such as the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, that lost seats while others, a new opposition parties such as the Japan Innovation Party got a large number of seats. Thus, even among the opposition parties, Japanese voter support is broadly divided into two camps. For this paper, I conducted an exploratory study in order to identify what kind of opposition party is desired by modern Japanese people via a vignette experiment. The results indicated that the Japanese voter prefers political parties formed of non-DPJ members of the Diet who seek a conciliatory party strategy with the ruling party and at the same time have a liberal party platform.
