Over 85% worry about impact of worsening Middle East conflict: Kyodo poll

TOKYO - Over 85 percent of respondents were concerned about the impact that the escalating conflict in the Middle East will have on their lives in Japan, with the approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Cabinet dipping to 64.1 percent, a Kyodo News poll showed Sunday.

In the two-day telephone survey conducted from Saturday, 85.4 percent of respondents were either "concerned" or "somewhat concerned" about the situation in the resource-rich region following the joint U.S.-Israel attack on Iran, with only 13.7 percent of them not worried.