Four of the members, Sakihito Ozawa, Shinji Oguma, Kazuhito Shigetoku and Toshihide Muraoka submitted their resignation from the party on 22 October 2015.
[3] Together with Taro Yamada, the President of The Assembly to Energize Japan, the group submitted an application to register a new party named the Sōmō no Kai (草莽の会, lit.
However, on 14 December Yoshihiro Suzuki, who had been sitting as an independent following his resignation from the Innovation Party, agreed to join the group.
Having met the required 5-member minimum for registration as a party, the Vision of Reform was registered on 21 December 2015.
Following a meeting with DPJ leader Yukio Edano on 22 March, Muraoka announced that four of the party's five members would participate in the merger.