But, owing to the party’s inexperience and incompetence at every level of policymaking – shortcomings that were compounded by the unprecedented devastation of the great earthquake of March 11, 2011 – the first two DPJ governments, under Yukio Hatoyama and Naoto Kan, ended with those pledges in tatters.
Sin embargo, dada la inexperiencia e incompetencia del partido en todos los niveles de la toma de decisiones –fallas que se agravaron con la devastación sin precedentes que provocó el gran terremoto de marzo de 2011– en los dos primeros gobiernos en manos del PDJ, bajo Yukio Hatoyama y Naoto Kan, esas promesas se desvanecieron.