Your Party, a new minor party, will seek to cooperate with the Democratic Party of Japan after the Aug. 30 general election, according to its leader, former Liberal Democratic Party member Yoshimi Watanabe.

"I confirmed about general cooperation" with DPJ leader Yukio Hatoyama and acting leader Naoto Kan when meeting with them one or two months ago, Watanabe told reporters Thursday in Tokyo.

While declining to say whether his party would seek to form a coalition government with the DPJ, which opinion polls indicate may win the election, Watanabe said, "It's an undeniable fact that what we are both saying and our directions are similar.