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Japan Cabinet’s Approval Rating Rises in Poll by Mainichi

Fumio Kishida, Japan's prime minister and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), pauses during a news conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, July 11, 2022. Kishida's strong election victory presents him with a three-year time frame to pursue his own agenda of making capitalism fairer and greener, with no need to quickly change course on economic policy including central bank stimulus. , Bloomberg

Toru Fujioka, Bloomberg News

Jul 17, 2022

(Bloomberg) -- The approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s cabinet rose to 52% from 48% last month in the first Mainichi newspaper opinion poll conducted after the murder of former premier Shinzo Abe.

Disapproval fell to 37% from 44%, the newspaper reported on Monday, citing a poll of more than 1,000 respondents. Of those surveyed, 70% said they have a positive evaluation of Abe’s achievements while 29% said they don’t.

Some 31% said they want Kishida to prioritize compiling an economic package while 24% said his priority should be inflation measures.

The survey was conducted over the July 16-17 weekend, the newspaper said.