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Shake-up fails to lift support for Japan's cabinet amid questions over church -surveys

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his cabinet ministers attend a photo session at Kishida's residence in Tokyo, Japan, August 10, 2022. REUTERS/Issei Kato/Pool

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's cabinet reshuffle appears to have done little to ease voter concerns amidst anger about the ruling party's ties to the Unification Church, opinion polls conducted by media groups indicated on Friday.

Links to the church, founded in South Korea in the 1950s and famous for its mass weddings, have become a major liability for Kishida in the month since the suspected killer of former premier Shinzo Abe said his mother was bankrupted by the group and blamed Abe for promoting it.

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