Japan's Cabinet approval rating drops 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 increased 5.7 percentage points to 41.6%.

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

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

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

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