Former Your Party Secretary-General Kenji Eda launched his new party Wednesday with 14 fellow defectors hoping to build a viable counter to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

They christened the new party Yuinotoh with the tentative English name of Unity Party.

"The current opposition camp can't stop the LDP, which is out of control, and the public thinks the opposition camp is useless," Eda told a news conference after being elected president of the party. "We will change Japan by abolishing bureaucracy-led politics, fighting vested interests and breaking the centralization of power."