Since September, the cabinet support rate led by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has been declining continuously due to the influence of public opposition and insistence on holding "state funeral" for Abe.

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio

html Since September, the cabinet support rate led by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has been declining continuously due to the influence of public opposition and other events such as holding "state funeral" for Abe . According to the latest poll results of Japan Kyodo on October 8 and 9, the support rate of Kishida cabinet hit a new low since he took office, down 5.2 percentage points from the previous month, falling to 35%. Japanese public opinion believes that the Kishida cabinet's current support rate is close to 30% of the level that endangers the safety of the regime.

Japanese people held a rally to oppose "state funeral"

Abe's assassination became the turning point for Kishida's support rate to decline

htmlOn October 4 is the first anniversary of Kishida's presidency as Japanese Prime Minister. Since October, although the data of various polling agencies are different, the results show that Kishida cabinet support rate has fallen below the 40% mark and is entering the "dangerous zone" of about 30%. It is worth mentioning that Kishida's ex-boyfriend Suga Yoshihide 's approval rating was at 31%.

Kisha Cabinet has maintained its approval rating above 60% in more than half a year after taking office. However, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was suddenly assassinated, which became the main turning point in the decline in the support rate of Kishida's cabinet. After that, Kishida decided to hold a "state funeral" for Abe, which aroused increasingly strong public opposition. In addition, the news that the "state funeral" budget suddenly increased from more than 200 million yen to 1.66 billion yen, and the scandal of linking between Liberal Democratic Party politicians and the Unified Church caused by Abe's assassination, once again ignited the disappointment of the people's cabinet on the opposite side of the Kishida Cabinet. The poll results show that more than 60% of Japan's domestic opposition to the government holding "state funerals" for Abe.

Although the Kishida government has invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources on Abe's "state funeral" issue, all the leaders of the G7 countries, known as "Japan's closest international allies", are absent. Meanwhile, during the funeral, opposition and protest crowds gathered everywhere. The failure of the "state funeral" directly led to a decline in the Kishida cabinet's support rate.

The foreign fleet participating in Abe's "state funeral"

and the Unified Church have caused more dissatisfaction. Another reason why the Kishida cabinet's support rate has declined is the relationship between the Liberal Democratic Party and the Unified Church.

Abe was assassinated, exposing the connection between Liberal Democratic Party politicians and the Unified Church to the world. Under the strong investigation of Japanese public opinion and opposition forces, the Liberal Democratic Party half-spoken and half-place investigation into the relationship between party members of the Party and the unified religion. The results show that nearly half of the LDP members have had one or another contact with the Unified Church, most of whom rely on the organization to organize canvassing votes during the election process.

Among them, the most popular one is Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan Hoshida Hiroyuki . He has been half-hiding his relationship with the Unified Church, which has intensified the people's dissatisfaction with the Liberal Democratic Party. Among the people surveyed, 87% believed that Hokuda had failed to fully explain the issue to the public.

followed by Kishida Cabinet's economic regeneration minister Oshiro Yamashima was also revealed to have a close relationship with the Unification Church. Yamaji also serves as Japan's minister for the response to the new crown epidemic. Kishida has been refusing Yamaji to dismiss Yamaji, which has caused the frequent appearance of the minister to constantly stimulate the nerves of the people. Every appearance of him reminds people of the relationship between the Liberal Democratic Party and the Unified Church.

As the dissatisfaction of the Kishida regime in all sectors of Japanese society was rising, Kishida's eldest son Shotaro Kishida suddenly became the Prime Minister's Secretary. Shotaro, who was only 31 years old, only served as Kishida's secretary for two years. He was directly promoted to Prime Minister's secretary without any political experience and achievements. The Kishida government also explained this decision based on the saying "selecting talents but not avoiding relatives", which once again aroused dissatisfaction among the public.

Kisha Fumio delivered a speech on countermeasures to the epidemic in response to new crown https://www.

. Ineffective response to people's livelihood accelerates the loss of public opinion

Kisha government has continued to promote anti-epidemic measures since its coming to power, but has achieved little success. In the first half of this year, Japan set a new record of new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in a single day, and has become the country with the largest number of new cases in the world for several consecutive months.

is the second issue of price directly related to people's livelihood.According to incomplete statistics, since this year, more than 20,000 commodities have increased in prices in Japan, with an average price increase of 14%. Since October alone, the prices of 6,700 commodities have risen. Eighty percent of Japanese people believe that rising prices directly affect their lives.

The third is the continuous depreciation of the yen. On October 10, the yen exchange rate once reached the level of 145.63 yen for 1 US dollar, setting a new low in 24 years. It is predicted that if the yen exchange rate remains at the level of 1 US dollar to 145 yen, the monthly expenditure of each Japanese household will increase by 80,000 yen (about 4,000 yuan).

Some analysts believe that Kishida led the Liberal Democratic Party to win the House of Representatives election in October last year, laying a solid foundation for it to achieve its "three consecutive years" ruling goal. However, because Kishida's personal personality is "soft" and lacks decisiveness in his governance, he has "played a good handful of cards in his hand." With the decline in the Kishida cabinet's support rate, signs of "decline" have begun to appear within the Liberal Democratic Party. How far can the Kishida government go is worth paying attention to.

Author: Wenhui Daily reporter in Tokyo Liu Hongliang

Editor: Lu Shuwen

Picture: Xinhua News Agency AP