Although he is still smarting from his enforced retirement before last Sunday's election, former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone still backs the Liberal Democratic Party and the Junichiro Koizumi administration.
He feels, however, that the LDP and the nation as a whole have room to improve.
Nakasone, considered one of Japan's strongest postwar leaders, told The Japan Times in a recent interview that the nation must improve its overall ties with other parts of Asia.