{"id":23477,"date":"2026-07-21T09:32:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/japan-takaichi-cabinets-disapproval-rating-overtakes-approval\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T09:32:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:32:04","slug":"japan-takaichi-cabinets-disapproval-rating-overtakes-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/japan-takaichi-cabinets-disapproval-rating-overtakes-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Takaichi cabinet&#8217;s disapproval rating overtakes approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Public support for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi&rsquo;s cabinet dropped sharply by 10 percentage points from June to 41%, falling below the disapproval rate, which climbed to 44%, a nationwide opinion poll by Mainichi Shimbun showed on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the poll conducted on Saturday and Sunday, the approval rating for the Takaichi cabinet declined from 51% in the June 20-21 survey to 41%, marking the first time it has fallen below 50% in the Mainichi Shimbun survey since the prime minister took office in October last year.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the proportion of respondents who did not support the cabinet rose by 9 percentage points, from 35% to 44%.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the second major Japanese media poll last week in which support for the Takaichi cabinet fell below 50%.<\/p>\n<p>A separate poll released by Jiji Press last Thursday found the cabinet&rsquo;s approval rating at 49%, down 5.3 percentage points from the previous month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Japan Takaichi cabinet&rsquo;s disapproval rating overtakes approval<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public support for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi&rsquo;s cabinet dropped sharply by 10 percentage points from June to 41%, falling below the disapproval rate, which climbed to 44%, a nationwide opinion poll by Mainichi Shimbun showed on Sunday. According to the poll conducted on Saturday and Sunday, the approval rating for the Takaichi cabinet declined&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/japan-takaichi-cabinets-disapproval-rating-overtakes-approval\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Japan Takaichi cabinet&#8217;s disapproval rating overtakes approval&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23477","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\/23477","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=23477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}