With the pivotal Aug. 30 election looming, Democratic Party of Japan President Yukio Hatoyama said Friday the upcoming Lower House battle will offer the public an opportunity to hand down its judgment on the past four years of Liberal Democratic Party rule.

The poll will also provide voters a chance to realize the DPJ's goal of shifting the government's center of gravity from bureaucrats to politicians, the opposition chief said in an interview.

But while pitching the grand design of a DPJ-led government, Hatoyama remained vague on details regarding how its policies would be introduced, in particular how they would be funded — a major question haunting both the long-ruling LDP and DPJ in their poll platform pledges.