TOKYO (Reuters) – Approval for the government of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida slid to 27.4%, a poll showed on Thursday, falling below 30% for the first time since he took office last October.
Disapproval rose 3.0 percentage points to 43.0%, the poll by Jiji Press between Oct. 7 and 10 showed.
It follows a Kyodo News poll on Sunday that showed support for Kishida’s government slid to the lowest in his one-year tenure as doubts grow over his ruling party’s disclosure of ties to the controversial Unification Church.
(Reporting by Mariko Katsumura; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
