{"id":1709,"date":"2025-06-30T17:51:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/support-for-ishiba-slips-ahead-of-key-national-vote-nhk-survey-shows\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T17:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:51:31","slug":"support-for-ishiba-slips-ahead-of-key-national-vote-nhk-survey-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/support-for-ishiba-slips-ahead-of-key-national-vote-nhk-survey-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Support for Ishiba slips ahead of key national vote, NHK survey shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Support for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba&rsquo;s government has slipped ahead of key national elections next month, a poll showed on Monday, with his cash handout plan to help the public deal with inflation having failed to impress voters.<\/p>\n<p>The current ruling bloc of Ishiba&rsquo;s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and junior partner Komeito lost its Lower House majority last year. A poor showing in the Upper House elections slated for July 20 would likely weaken his grip on power further.<\/p>\n<p>Support for Ishiba&rsquo;s government stands at 34%, down from 39% in the previous poll three weeks ago, according to the poll conducted by public broadcaster NHK.<\/p>\n<p>The LDP says in its campaign pledges that it plans to give out &yen;20,000 ($139) to each individual and an additional &yen;20,000 to children as well as adult members of low-income households amid rising prices.<\/p>\n<p>But the NHK poll showed 32% of those surveyed do not evaluate the plan very positively and 31% do not evaluate the plan positively at all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Support for Ishiba slips ahead of key national vote, NHK survey shows<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba&rsquo;s government has slipped ahead of key national elections next month, a poll showed on Monday, with his cash handout plan to help the public deal with inflation having failed to impress voters. The current ruling bloc of Ishiba&rsquo;s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and junior partner Komeito lost its Lower&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/support-for-ishiba-slips-ahead-of-key-national-vote-nhk-survey-shows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Support for Ishiba slips ahead of key national vote, NHK survey shows&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}