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Support rating for Kan's Cabinet plunges to 47.6%: Kyodo poll+
TOKYO, Oct. 6 Kyodo - The support rating for Prime Minister Naoto Kan's Cabinet plunged to 47.6 percent in the latest Kyodo News poll released Wednesday, reflecting dissatisfaction with its handling of a territorial row with China and a political funds scandal involving ruling party kingpin Ichiro Ozawa.
The approval rating for the Cabinet fell 16.8 percentage points from 64.4
percent in the previous poll conducted shortly after Kan formed his reshuffled
Cabinet on Sept. 17, while its disapproval rating rose to 36.6 percent from the
previous 21.2 percent.
In the latest survey conducted Tuesday and Wednesday, 54.3 percent of
respondents answered that Ozawa, former leader and secretary general of the
ruling Democratic Party of Japan, should resign from the Diet as he is set to
face trial after an independent citizens' panel said Monday that he should be
indicted over accounting irregularities at his fund management body.
But more respondents -- 63.8 percent -- said that the political heavyweight,
who unsuccessfully challenged Kan in the DPJ's presidential election Sept. 14,
should leave the party, according to the survey based on valid responses from
1,006 voters.
The vast majority -- 86.4 percent -- said they were not satisfied with Ozawa's
denial of any wrongdoing despite the indictment of three of his former aides
over a land deal in Tokyo.
The telephone survey also showed that 72.3 percent found it inappropriate that
prosecutors released a Chinese trawler captain who had been detained after his
fishing boat collided with Japan Coast Guard patrol vessels near the disputed
Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on Sept. 7.
Among all respondents, 82.0 percent said they were not satisfied with the
government's claim that it had not influenced the prosecutors' decision to free
the skipper.
In announcing the release, the Naha District Public Prosecutors Office said
Sept. 24 that it made the decision out of consideration for future Japan-China
relations.
The survey also found that 90.0 percent of respondents were not satisfied with
China's apparent halt of rare earth exports to Japan and its decision to stop
high-level bilateral talks in apparent retaliation for Japan's arrest of the
Chinese captain.
More than a majority -- 56.4 percent -- said that they valued Kan's meeting
with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Brussels on the sidelines of the Asia-Europe
Meeting earlier this week, in which the two agreed to improve their countries'
strained ties, while 34.6 percent did not value the meeting.
Among those who said they support Kan's Cabinet, the largest group of 50.1
percent answered they do so because there are no suitable alternatives for
prime minister, up from 45.9 percent in the previous survey.
The main reason cited for disapproval was the premier's lack of leadership at
22.5 percent, down from 23.8 percent in the previous poll, while 19.1 percent
responded that they have no expectations for his foreign policies, almost three
times higher than the previous 6.3 percent.
With regard to political parties, support for Kan's DPJ dropped to 33.9 percent
from 39.7 percent, while that for the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party
also fell to 20.2 percent from 22.4 percent.
They were followed by 9.2 percent for Your Party, 3.9 percent for the Japanese
Communist Party, 3.8 percent for the New Komeito party and 1.0 percent for the
Social Democratic Party.
Concerning Ozawa, 36.2 percent said that he did not have to give up his Diet
seat and 26.4 percent said he did not need to leave the DPJ.
Ozawa will be indicted in line with a revised inquest of prosecution law as a
minimum of eight members of an independent judicial panel decided for a second
time in favor of his indictment.
==Kyodo
The approval rating for the Cabinet fell 16.8 percentage points from 64.4
percent in the previous poll conducted shortly after Kan formed his reshuffled
Cabinet on Sept. 17, while its disapproval rating rose to 36.6 percent from the
previous 21.2 percent.
In the latest survey conducted Tuesday and Wednesday, 54.3 percent of
respondents answered that Ozawa, former leader and secretary general of the
ruling Democratic Party of Japan, should resign from the Diet as he is set to
face trial after an independent citizens' panel said Monday that he should be
indicted over accounting irregularities at his fund management body.
But more respondents -- 63.8 percent -- said that the political heavyweight,
who unsuccessfully challenged Kan in the DPJ's presidential election Sept. 14,
should leave the party, according to the survey based on valid responses from
1,006 voters.
The vast majority -- 86.4 percent -- said they were not satisfied with Ozawa's
denial of any wrongdoing despite the indictment of three of his former aides
over a land deal in Tokyo.
The telephone survey also showed that 72.3 percent found it inappropriate that
prosecutors released a Chinese trawler captain who had been detained after his
fishing boat collided with Japan Coast Guard patrol vessels near the disputed
Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on Sept. 7.
Among all respondents, 82.0 percent said they were not satisfied with the
government's claim that it had not influenced the prosecutors' decision to free
the skipper.
In announcing the release, the Naha District Public Prosecutors Office said
Sept. 24 that it made the decision out of consideration for future Japan-China
relations.
The survey also found that 90.0 percent of respondents were not satisfied with
China's apparent halt of rare earth exports to Japan and its decision to stop
high-level bilateral talks in apparent retaliation for Japan's arrest of the
Chinese captain.
More than a majority -- 56.4 percent -- said that they valued Kan's meeting
with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Brussels on the sidelines of the Asia-Europe
Meeting earlier this week, in which the two agreed to improve their countries'
strained ties, while 34.6 percent did not value the meeting.
Among those who said they support Kan's Cabinet, the largest group of 50.1
percent answered they do so because there are no suitable alternatives for
prime minister, up from 45.9 percent in the previous survey.
The main reason cited for disapproval was the premier's lack of leadership at
22.5 percent, down from 23.8 percent in the previous poll, while 19.1 percent
responded that they have no expectations for his foreign policies, almost three
times higher than the previous 6.3 percent.
With regard to political parties, support for Kan's DPJ dropped to 33.9 percent
from 39.7 percent, while that for the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party
also fell to 20.2 percent from 22.4 percent.
They were followed by 9.2 percent for Your Party, 3.9 percent for the Japanese
Communist Party, 3.8 percent for the New Komeito party and 1.0 percent for the
Social Democratic Party.
Concerning Ozawa, 36.2 percent said that he did not have to give up his Diet
seat and 26.4 percent said he did not need to leave the DPJ.
Ozawa will be indicted in line with a revised inquest of prosecution law as a
minimum of eight members of an independent judicial panel decided for a second
time in favor of his indictment.
==Kyodo
