Japan PM's Cabinet support rate falls to 61%, most fret over naphtha impact

TOKYO - The approval rate for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Cabinet fell 2.5 percentage points from the previous survey to 61.3 percent, with 70.6 percent of respondents expressing concern about disrupted supplies of petroleum-derived naphtha, a Kyodo News poll showed Sunday.

In the two-day telephone survey conducted from Saturday, 70.5 percent of respondents said the government should ask the public to conserve energy in response to oil supply shortages amid the Middle East conflict.