Kishida Cabinet’s approval rate sinks to record low – The Japan Times

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1. > The approval rate for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Cabinet dropped to 26.3% this month, the lowest level since he took office in October 2021, a Jiji Press survey showed.

   > In the October survey, the Kishida Cabinet saw its disapproval rate rise 2.3 points to 46.3%, nearing its worst level of 47.4%, logged in August. Meanwhile, 27.4% of respondents said they do not know how to characterize the Kishida Cabinet.

   > The fact that Kishida did not appoint a single woman as a state minister or parliamentary vice minister may have contributed to the unpopularity of the reshuffle.

   > Among those disapproving of the Cabinet, 26% said they have no hopes for the Cabinet, while 22.7% said its policies are bad and 18.1% said they cannot trust the prime minister.

   [Japanese Jiji article page with more statistics](https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2023101200778)

2. The LDP has been screwing up the nation and its economy for a solid 40 years now. Good to see people catching on.

3. As we all know:

   1. People are moaning mainly because Kishida is touching everybody’s wallets (more taxes, idleness towards inflation).
   2. Kishida has been pushing unpopular measures instead of focusing on improving the above (e.g.: Invoice System, Ny Number Card to replace the National Health Card).
   3. This will have little effect in the elections since there are no better alternatives and the Japanese voters lean towards keeping the status quo, regardless of age bracket.
   4. In the end Kishida will make some performances right before the elections to try to improve his image, he (or some other strawman from the LDP) will be elected and the cycle will start again.

   There will not be a change in government until there is a catastrophic crisis, like what happened with Lehman Brothers.