Fearing that the United States have already renounced its international leadership role, 22 Japanese politicians formed a conservative-leaning party to push for more focused measures to confront China's increasingly aggressive rise in the region.

Calling themselves Japan's Party for Future Generations, the new party is an offshoot of the opposition Japan Restoration Party that split up last month.

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Members of the Party for Future Generations visited Washington this week to remind the U.S. whom they have come to regard as distracted with the Russia-Ukraine crisis and the rising terrorism threat brought on by a group calling themselves the Islamic State (ISIL), of China's power-grabbing maneuvers in the Pacific.

Chairman Takeo Hiranuma, a former trade minister, told The Washington Post of his frustration over United States' neglect of China's offensive tactics in the region.

China remains embroiled in bitter territorial disputes with a number of countries in the South China Sea, including Japan, Philippines and Vietnam.

Japan and China have competing claims over the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, which a recent poll released by a Chinese state-sponsored newspaper revealed threatens to cause war between the countries.

According to the China Daily poll, 53 percent of China believes war with Japan is imminent.

The White House has openly denounced China's forceful advance in the region, the latest being the reported reclamation in South China Sea within the Philippine territories, and has appealed for the restoration of peace in the Pacific.

But the Japanese lawmakers are concerned that the United States has withdrawn from its ''policing'' role, Hiranuma told The Washington Post.

Daisuke Sakamoto, the party's secretary general and a member of Japan's House of Representatives, echoed the same sentiment. The United States, Sakamoto said, has to arrest China's show of force.

The Party for Future Generations specifically wants Washington to back Japan's claims over the disputed Senkaku Islands.

U.S. President Barack Obama denied neglecting its allies in the Pacific, citing that the United States never forgets its strategic interests in the region, representatives of the State Department reportedly said.

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