With the launch of Kan’s cabinet, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun and TV Tokyo conducted an emergency public opinion survey on September 16 and 17. According to the results, the approval rate of the Kan cabinet reached 74%, ranking 3rd among all new cabinets in Japan. Compared to the last survey of the Abe cabinet conducted in August, the approval rate has increased by 19 percentage points. Regarding the reasons for supporting Kan’s cabinet, the majority of respondents answered that the prime minister’s personality and sense of stability were the most important.
According to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun today, the approval rate of Kan’s cabinet is 74%, and his character is well liked.
The highest approval rating of the cabinet at the time of the regime’s rise to power was that of Junichiro Koizumi’s cabinet in 2001, at 80%, according to survey results from 1987 onward, for which statistics are available. The 2nd Abe Cabinet in 2012, when the 2nd Abe Cabinet first took office, had an approval rating of 62%.
As for the reasons for supporting Kan’s cabinet (multiple choice), the most respondents answered “trustworthiness” (46%). During the LDP presidential election, Kan described his background as “the eldest son of a farmer’s family in cold, snowy Akita” and repeatedly explained his involvement in national politics as a local councilor.
In recent years, among the reasons for supporting the Abe cabinet, “trustworthiness” has only been cited at a 10% level. With the change of prime minister, the reasons for support have changed.
According to the report, the second most popular reason for supporting Kan’s cabinet is “a sense of stability,” with 39%. Kan spent seven years and eight months as Chief Cabinet Secretary, promoting crisis management and other tasks. Among the reasons for supporting the Abe cabinet, “having an international outlook” was cited by more than 20% of the respondents, while this percentage dropped to 7% for the Kan cabinet.
The percentage of those who do not support the cabinet has decreased by 20 points to 17%. The main reasons for disapproval are that “the Cabinet is LDP-centric” (48%) and that “the government and party are not operating well” (32%). In the most recent survey, more than 30% of the respondents did not support the Abe cabinet because of “bad policies. This time it is 13%.
In terms of gender, women’s support for the cabinet is 77%, while men’s is 72%. In most surveys, the Abe cabinet has higher approval ratings for men than women. By age, support for Kan’s cabinet was 87% among the 18-29 age group.
According to the report, the top reason for approval is “a sense of stability,” at 29%. The second most important reason is “inheriting the Abe cabinet” (24%). The top reason for “disapproval” was “inherited from the Abe cabinet” (30%), followed by “held back by factional intentions” (26%).
According to the report, the survey was conducted by Nikkei Research on September 16 and 17 among men and women over 18 years of age throughout Japan, and 1007 responses were received through a random dialing method that included cell phone numbers. The response rate was 47.6%.
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