"Since Abe retook office in 2017, he relied largely on conservative forces to carry out populist polices. With economic upswings in the world and the depreciating yen attracting a large amount of foreign tourists, Japanese economy to some extent remained stable," Liu said.
"But while the Abe administration failed to give a direct answer to key issues such as Japan's huge fiscal deficit, conservative forces that want a different choice turned to the Party of Hope," he said.
Yu Uchiyama, a professor of the University of Tokyo, meanwhile, pointed out that voters were discouraged from trusting the new Party of Hope especially after Koike refused to accept the liberal wing of the effectively disbanding Democratic Party, distracting from the party's earlier promise of being tolerant and inclusive.
The party's "relatively empty" policies and not having its own candidate for prime minister, also make it hard for voters to trust it.
The CDPJ, set up only about a couple of weeks ago by former Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano after the Democratic Party split up, was quick to rise after people's initial enthusiasm for the Party of Hope ebbed.
"The conservative Party of Hope with Koike as head tries to break the dominance of Abe administration. But it was obviously not well prepared. As for the non-conservative forces including the CDPJ, the Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party etc., they might take this election as an opportunity to realign," said Liu.
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