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The approval rating for the Cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba rose 7.9 percentage points to 40.0 percent, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday, leaving it still well below its initial support of over 50 percent from just over a month ago. The telephone poll, conducted for two days from Saturday, found 69.9 percent […]
Shigeru Ishiba was formally reelected as Japan’s prime minister on Monday after a rare runoff vote in parliament that his ruling coalition no longer controls, setting the stage for a minority government that may push him to yield more to an emboldened opposition bloc. In the first runoff vote in three decades to select a […]
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Thursday dismissed the view that his ruling Liberal Democratic Party is financially supporting politicians implicated in a party slush funds scandal who are running in this weekend’s general election without party endorsement. Ishiba said the provision of funds, which came to light Wednesday and drew immediate criticism from the opposition […]