TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's ruling coalition looks set to win a comfortable majority in Sunday's general election, a fresh batch of surveys showed, the latest sign voters back his agenda to reduce government's role in the world's second-biggest economy.
The Asahi newspaper said on Friday that its poll of closely fought districts indicated Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) would win at least 241 seats in parliament's 480-seat lower house, giving it a majority on its own for the first time since 1990 and handing the two-party ruling bloc a firm grip on power.
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