The Cabinet of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi continues to enjoy better than 85 percent support among voters, and his appeal even lifted the LDP above the 40 percent support line for the first time in almost two years, according to a Kyodo News poll released Wednesday.
The support rate for the Cabinet stood at 85.4 percent, just a hair under the 86.3 percent registered in a telephone poll conducted by Kyodo the day after it was formed April 26.
The disapproval rate, however, edged up from 6 percent to 8.8 percent.