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Mr Kipling
Why is this even news? The electorate of Japan, mainly old and conservative, will go out and vote for their feudal masters in the LDP whether they like them or not.
Moonraker
The real approval rate could be even lower since the landlines are more likely to be older, conservative, LDP voters and there was a much higher response from landlines. But the overall response rate suggests a large margin for error, which is of course never included in Japanese poll numbers, rendering them of limited use.
dagon
I wonder if Kishida and company are genuinely puzzled by their low polls.
"I just signed a 29 trillion yen aid package to "protect the livelihoods of the Japanese people! Can I get any appreciation around here!"
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20221028/p2g/00m/0bu/020000c
Of course it was just corporate welfare subsidies with the request wages rise to offset inflation and prices stabilize. As usual.
Or just shrugs knowing he does not in any way , shape or form serve the Japanese people.
Yubaru
They can also target specific areas when calling on landlines as well.
Dango bong
Politicians are supposed to represent the people's will. This government contently does things the people are solidly against, including spending an obscene amount of tax money a politician's funeral.
TokyoOldMan
The Government appears to no longer represent the People.
Michael Machida
I wonder why? I mean, he just started working on things. Give him a few years to actually do something effective in your life. Vote for him again so he can do some work in the years ahead. He needs more time. Meetings. Agreements across the board. More meetings are needed. More and more meetings please.
indigo
where come from the rate??? I never elected this money-printing button pusher.
Cricky
There are smart Japanese people who could drastically increase happiness of lives for the of Japanese people, but they are not part of the feudal nepotism family. So we have what we have numbskulls. Getting huge salaries for making everyone’s lives miserable.
shogun36
What are those imbeciles thinking about?
Wait for what? Things to get even worse?
Jozef
Next !! Next LDP guy in line maybe will be Kono. More of the same.
nothing ever changes and Japan sinks further and further
CaptDingleheimer
One reason little gets done in that country is that the people's patience with a given prime minister only lasts a year or so. It's become a habit of the electorate at this point to take a mandate away from a PM before long-term goals on which he was put into power can be developed. Scandals don't help his cause, but whoever the prime minister is or becomes, the chips are stacked against him before he gets started.
antifun
The low approval rate won't change a thing when there is no organized and motivated opposition. That said we are now likely to witness Kishida's resignation before the next general election as bait and switch like they did with Suga and another "reshuffling". Wonder where will Also land this time.
Mark
Poll's mean NOTHING, they are what they are just Poll's, or opinions with no true value.
Elections, Voting, and Ballot Boxes is what amtters.
Sven Asai
Sorry, but with the results his new capitalism brought so far he can be very happy to have even any support rating above zero.
kurisupisu
If only the politicians took time to learn what the ordinary Japanese go through in their lives then things might change?
However, I see that the wealthy (in any country) get by with parsimonious, deceptive and mean behavior-the more they have,the more they want and complete selfishness becomes a way of life…
dan
Stagnation,corruption and nepotism...welcome to the LDP.
Yubaru
When has it ever really done so here? The only party that ever seems to "represent" the people and work towards getting anything accomplished for them is Komeito.
SDCA
One day it's down, the next it's up, and now down again. I don't care about these numbers, I just want these guys out of office.
shogun36
They should do a simple poll on Japanese twitter.
Vote:
kishida:
good?
or
bad?
then tell us the numbers.
Rodney
I can’t believe he is two points lower than a world leader with reported dementia?
Sven Asai
No need to complain the survey or statistics behind. Of course those percentages are not strictly fix. 33.1% is the median of the confidence interval, and according to the data with 2432 people asked and 1035 responses from them, as written above , it means statistically that there’s a spread of about + - 1.9 to 2.5% Therefore the approval rate is not exactly 33.1% but only very highly probable between 35% and 31% or so.
Moskollo
He doesn’t seem to do much other than follow abenomics. He’s been in charge a year and doesn’t seem to have any policies or beliefs other than paying homage to abe Shinzo..
kaimycahl
Only a fool will believe polls!
fxgai
Amen! There is a glimmer of hope.
Japan spends 150 trillion yen on revenues of 65 trillion yen - absolutely slashing spending is the way any extra funds should be found.
22% fools. Japan has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the OECD and tepid wages. Hiking taxes on corporations when Japan needs better paying jobs would be the height of stupidity. That’s what the new Tory PM in the UK is going to do though, lol.
13% morons too. Keep binging till it’s all over huh.
Simon Foston
fxgaiNov. 29 11:19 pm JST
What cuts should be made, specifically?
The LDP wouldn't dare do that. Individual politicians would be too scared of annoying corporate donors and vote-raisers to get behind it. However, there's no sign that they're doing anything else to get employers to raise wages.