The group's scale and participation by some of the Liberal Democratic Party's heaviest hitters would've been unusual even for its former factions, let alone for policy research.
★The strength of the Liberal Democratic Party lies in the fact that, to use a term from the past, when there were critical and opposing forces and factions within the party, even non-mainstream or anti-mainstream lawmakers did not so easily reject the party president and prime minister they had elected... - Nikkan Sports News website, nikkansports.com.