According to Kyodo News, former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Yukio Hatoyama said they would absent from the state funeral of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, which was held on September 27. Naoto Kan said the decision to hold a state funeral was not fully discussed in t

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( Observer Network ) According to Japan Kyodo News , former Japanese Prime Ministers Kan Naoto and Hatoyama Yukio said they would absent from the state funeral of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held on September 27.

Kan said on his personal Twitter account that he received an invitation from Shinzo Abe's state funeral from the Japanese government on September 12. Naoto Kan said the decision to hold a state funeral was not fully discussed in the Japanese parliament, and based on past examples, he believed it was inappropriate.

According to Kyodo News, former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Yukio Hatoyama said they would absent from the state funeral of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, which was held on September 27. Naoto Kan said the decision to hold a state funeral was not fully discussed in t - DayDayNews

screenshot from Kan's Twitter account

More than Japanese media polls showed that due to factors such as the former Unified Church and the state funeral of Abe , the support rate of Kishida Cabinet was severely hit.

According to a poll conducted by the newspaper from the 17th to 18th released by Japan's " Daily News " on September 19, the Kishida cabinet's support rate dropped to 29%, a 7 percentage point decrease from the previous survey, and fell below 30% for the first time; the unsupport rate rose by 10 percentage points to 64%.

Kyodo News on the 219th that the results of the Japan national telephone public opinion survey implemented by the agency on the 17th and 18th also showed that Kishida's support rate hit a new low.

Kyodo News survey results show that Kishida's cabinet support rate was 40.2%, a sharp drop of 13.9 percentage points from the last survey on August 10 and 11. The cabinet's unsupported rate reached the highest 46.5% of the Kishida cabinet so far, surpassing its approval rating for the first time. Regarding the state funeral of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, 60.8% of respondents who answered "opposite" and "inclined to object", surpassing the total of 38.5% of respondents who answered "agree" and "inclined to agree".

htmlOn 19, a citizen group opposing state funeral gathered in Tokyo Yoyogi Park and demanded the cancellation of state funeral. According to the organizer, 13,000 people attended the rally. Braving the heavy rainfall caused by typhoon , people shouted the slogan "opposing state funerals that violate the constitution" after the rally, holding banners and slogans in hand parades on the streets of Shibuya and Harajuku .

According to Kyodo News, former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Yukio Hatoyama said they would absent from the state funeral of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, which was held on September 27. Naoto Kan said the decision to hold a state funeral was not fully discussed in t - DayDayNews

Citizens opposing state funeral gathered in Tokyo Yoyogi Park, with 13,000 people participating, picture from Kyodo News

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