Staff writer

With opinion polls continuing to show low public support for the new LDP-Liberal Party-New Komeito coalition, new Chief Cabinet Secretary Mikio Aoki said Friday that the government will try its best to raise opinions by implementing better policies.

"The three parties must plan and achieve better policies to gain a voter mandate, which would reverse the low support figure (for the coalition)," said Aoki, 65, an Upper House lawmaker with the Liberal Democratic Party, in an interview with The Japan Times.