The Cabinet formed by newly elected Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi received a resounding 86.3 percent approval rating in an opinion poll released Saturday by Kyodo News, the highest ever for a Kyodo telephone poll conducted immediately after the formation of a new Cabinet.
The previous high was 75.7 percent support for the Cabinet of Morihiro Hosokawa immediately after he ousted the Liberal Democratic Party from power in August 1993.
Only 6 percent of the those questioned said they disapprove of Koizumi's Cabinet.