Japanese Prime Minister Kishida's Approval Rating at 18%... Four Consecutive Months in the 10% Range

Although an unusual tailwind is blowing in the Japanese stock market, public support for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida remains in the 10% range.

On the 14th, Jiji Press reported that in a public opinion poll conducted through individual interviews from the 8th to the 11th, the approval rating of the Kishida Cabinet was recorded at 18.0%, up 1.1 percentage points from the previous month.

The Kishida Cabinet's approval rating remained in the 10% range for four consecutive months and recorded a "resignation crisis" level below 30% for the eighth consecutive month.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida [Photo by Yonhap News]

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) support rate rose 1.4 percentage points to 17.7%. In the Jiji Press survey, the LDP's support rate stayed in the 10% range for five consecutive months. Regarding Prime Minister Kishida's handling of the LDP's slush fund issue, 74.2% responded that they "do not approve."

Jiji Press noted that the low-level flight of the Cabinet's approval rating continues against the backdrop of the LDP faction's slush fund scandal, and the expected approval rating boost from the Japanese stock market boom is limited.

This month, the Kishida Cabinet's approval rating was also very low in other media polls. In the Kyodo News survey, it was a record low of 20.1%, and in the local NHK broadcast survey, it remained at 25%, the same as last month.