New Komeito leader Takenori Kanzaki said Friday his party will stay the course and fully back the Liberal Democratic Party in the Sept. 11 general election because of its stance on reform.
"The election will be (held) to ask voters about the justifiability of postal privatization and whether to support reform or retreat," Kanzaki said in an interview.
"New Komeito has spearheaded a reform drive in the past six years since joining the coalition, and postal privatization is symbolic (of that)."