The DJP vowed to cut wasteful spending and revitalize the world's second-largest economy by increasing household incomes and encouraging spending, but remains hazy on how it would fulfill its promises.

The embattled LDP, whose close ties with Japan's powerful bureaucracy stymied reforms for years, pledged to push economic measures with a record stimulus package and revive Japan's economy in the next two years to achieve 2-percent growth in the second half of

fiscal 2010.