Japan Cabinet Approval Rating Falls to 40.8%

A poll by Japan's Kyodo news agency conducted over the weekend showed that the approval rating for Prime Minister Kishida Fumio's Cabinet fell from 47% in the previous poll in late May to 40.8%, while the "disapproval" rating rose 5.7 percentage points to 41.6%.

The decline was mainly due to a total of 71.6 percent of respondents being “somewhat worried” or “somewhat worried” about the expansion of the My Number personal card, while 72.1 percent called for a postponement or cancellation of the government’s plan to eliminate health insurance cards and combine them into a physical My Number card next fall. The My Number card system, launched in 2016, consists of 12 digits issued to every citizen and foreign resident in Japan to link various personal data, including tax and social security information.

Additionally, child care policy, one of Prime Minister Kishida's priority focuses, did not seem to help boost the Cabinet's ratings either, with 66.3 percent of those surveyed saying they had "no expectations" or "not much expectations" from the government's plan to increase child care spending to slow the rapidly falling birth rate.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (center, front row) and cabinet members pose for a group photo in Tokyo on August 10, 2022.

In terms of support for political parties, 35.5% said they supported the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), followed by 13.6% and 8.1% for the main opposition Japan Restoration Party and the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. More than 26% said they did not support any political party.

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