Following the bombings targeting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, public opinion polls showed approval ratings for the Kishida cabinet rising.
According to a national opinion poll jointly conducted by the Yomiuri Shimbun and NNN (Nippon News Network) on the 18th, the approval rating for the Kishida cabinet was 47%, which was higher than the negative response (37%) of not supporting it.
It has been seven months since September 2022 that support outpaced non-support, Yomiuri said. In this April’s opinion poll, the approval rating for the Kishida cabinet increased by 5 percentage points from the previous March survey, while negative responses saying they did not support it decreased by 6 percentage points.
Yomiuri pointed out that such a result may have had an effect on the rise in approval ratings for the Cabinet, as the incident in which explosives were thrown at the election speech hall visited by Prime Minister Kishida on the 15th during the polling period. In response before the bombing incident, the approval rating was in the early 40% range, but after the incident, it rose to 50%.
As for the policies evaluated by the Kishida Cabinet, ‘new coronavirus countermeasures’ recorded the highest rate at 66%, followed by ‘diplomacy’ at 57% and ‘security including strengthening of defense capabilities’ at 52%.
43% of the government’s most important task was low birth rate measures, and the lowest rated policy was high inflation measures (22%), which was lower than ‘social security such as pensions’ (25%) and ‘financial reconstruction’ (26%). .
Meanwhile, the approval ratings for Japanese political parties were 34% for the Liberal Democratic Party, 6% for the Japan Restoration Society, and 4% for the Constitutional Democratic Party.
This joint poll by Yomiuri Shimbun and NNN was conducted from the 14th to the 16th, targeting 1071 voters across the country by wire and mobile phone method.
Previously, in a poll conducted by ANN, a news network of a private broadcasting company in Japan, on 1055 voters across the country on the 15th and 16th, the approval rating for the Kishida Cabinet was 45.3%, a 10.2%p increase from the previous survey. 34.6% of respondents said they did not support it.
Source: Donga
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