64% of Japanese unhappy with gov't response to rising prices: poll

The proportion of Japanese who consider Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's response to rising prices to be inadequate came to 64.1 percent, while 28.1 percent said it is satisfactory, a Kyodo News survey showed Monday.In a three-day nationwide telephone poll conducted from Saturday, a total of 77.3 percent said rising prices of food and other daily necessities have affected their lives to a varying degree, up 8.6 percentage points from the April survey.With the House of Councillors election expected to take place next month, 71.1 percent said they would take higher costs of living into consider…READ FULL ARTICLE