The approval rating of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet stood at 57%, a recent Yomiuri Shimbun national opinion poll found, down eight percentage points from 65% in the previous survey conducted in July, just after the House of Councillors election.
According to the poll conducted from Friday to Sunday, the Cabinet disapproval rating rose to 32% from 24% in the previous July 11-12 survey.
Several lawmakers including members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party received election support and donations from the religious group called the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, widely known as the Unification Church. On this issue, 87% of all respondents -- and 82% of LDP supporters -- said they did not think political parties or lawmakers concerned had fulfilled their responsibility to explain.
