Japan Digest
Japan Digest · 2024/08/25
1. Ishiba Released A Book To Show His Confidence To Be Post-Kishida According to NHK’s monthly survey, which was conducted from August 2 through August 4, the Kishida Cabinet’s approval rating remained unchanged at 25%, while its disapproval rating went down by 2 points to 55%. Although there was no announcement by any of the hopefuls to run for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election this week, former Secretary General of the party Shigeru Ishiba released his book...
Japan Digest · 2024/08/25
1. Kishida’s Approval Rating Stayed Low According to Yomiuri’s monthly survey, which was conducted from July 19 through July 21, the Kishida Cabinet’s approval rating went up by 2 points to 25%, while its disapproval rating went down by 2 points to 62%. This is the 9th month in row for the approval ratings to hang low over below 30%. Although PM Kishida and his team are trying to find a way out, the media is now frequently reporting the signs of the post-Kishida movement. None of the...
Japan Digest · 2024/08/25
1. Kishida’s Approval Rating Went Up To 25% According to NHK’s monthly survey, which was conducted from July 5 through July 7, the Kishida Cabinet’s approval rating went up by 4 points to 25%, while its disapproval rating went down by 3 points to 57%. Although neither the passage of the amendment of the Political Fund Control Law nor the onetime tax break in June did raise Kishida’s approval ratings, it seems that the Kishida Administration’s decision to provide households with a...
Japan Digest · 2024/08/25
1. Amendment Of The Political Fund Control Law Didn’t Improve Kishida’s Approval Rating According to Yomiuri’s monthly survey, which was conducted from June 21 through 23, the Kishida Cabinet’s approval rating went down by 3 points to 23%, which is the lowest ever since Kishida inaugurated his cabinet in October of 2021. Its disapproval rating went up by one point to 64%. 56% of the respondents did not appreciate the restrictions and transparency rules out of the Amended Political Fund...
Japan Digest · 2024/08/25
1. Kishida Administration Drafted Basic Policy Of Economic & Fiscal Reform The Kishida Administration presented a draft of “Basic Policy of Economic and Fiscal Reform” at the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy on June 11, the media reported. The basic policy is intended to make the Japanese economy completely getting out of the deflation spiral by spurring the present trend of salary and income growth to be sustainable and to set a new economic stage to make its annual GDP reach the...
Japan Digest · 2024/08/25
1. CDPJ To Seek For Tokyo Governor’s Position To Further Drive LDP Into A Corner The Shizuoka Prefecture’s gubernatorial election was held on May 26 and Mr. Yasutomo Suzuki, Mayor of Hamamatsu, who was supported by CDPJ won over Mr. Shinnichi Omura, former Vice-Governor of Shizuoka, who was supported by the ruling LDP. Before this gubernatorial election, there were three by-elections for one each of House of Representative in Nagasaki’s 3rd District, Shimane’s 1st District and Tokyo’s...
Japan Digest · 2024/05/26
1. PM Kishida Delivered A Speech At OECD To Promote Generative AI’s Framework As anticipated in the last digest, PM Kishida visited Paris during the Golden Week in Japan and delivered a keynote speech on May 2 at the opening ceremony of this year’s OECD Board of Directors meeting. He introduced Japan’s idea of an international AI framework “Hiroshima AI Process Friends Group” that stemmed from the Hiroshima AI Process that the G7 Hiroshima Summit agreed to pursue last year. The...
Japan Digest · 2024/05/26
1. PM Kishida’s Low Approval Rating Remained Unchanged Despite His State Visit To The U.S. According to Yomiuri’s monthly survey, which was conducted on April 19 through 24, the Kishida Cabinet’s approval rating remained unchanged from the previous month at 25%, while its disapproval rating went up by four points to 66%. The ruling LDP’s approval rating slightly went up by 1 point to 24%, while CDPJ, the largest opposition party’s approval rating went down to 5% from 8%. Although 55%...
Japan Digest · 2024/05/26
1. PM Kishida’s Approval Rating Continuing To Tumble According to NHK’s monthly survey, which was conducted on April 5 through 7, the Kishida Cabinet’s approval rating declined by two points to 23% from the previous month, while its disapproval rating went up by one point to 58%. The ruling LDP’s approval rating continuously went down to 28.4% from 28.6% of the previous month. CDPJ, the largest opposition party’s approval rating also went down to 6.5% from 6.8%. Although the LDP...
Japan Digest · 2024/03/31
1. PM Kishida’s Plan To Gain Back Political Capital Hasn’t Born Fruit Yet Yomiuri’s monthly survey, which was conducted on March 22 through 24, the Kishida Cabinet’s approval rating slightly increased by one point to 25% from the previous month, while its disapproval rating also slightly went up by one point to 62%. The ruling LDP’s approval rating continuously went down to 23%, which is the lowest since the party returned to power in 2012. CDPJ, the largest opposition party’s...