Neither the DPJ nor the LDP appears dependable in any of these areas. As a result, the public is paying increasing attention to the newly created Japan Restoration Party (JRP) and its populist leader, Osaka City Mayor Toru Hashimoto, a former governor of Osaka prefecture and the son of a minor Yakuza (mafioso).
因此，日本民众现在所要寻找的政党是一个能够改革国家、振兴经济、改善国家安全的政党。不管是民主党还是自民党，都不能在这些领域有大的作为。结果，越来越多的日本民众把目光投向了新成立的日本维新党及其民粹主义党首、大阪市市长、前大阪府知事、黑道小头目之子桥下彻。