The public approval rating for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet edged up, but a larger group of respondents are against revising the pacifist Constitution under his leadership, a Kyodo News poll showed Sunday.The nationwide telephone survey conducted Saturday and Sunday also shows 49.0 percent of respondents are in favor of immediately halting the operation of nuclear power plants in Japan, an initiative championed by former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi whose remarks still carry weight. Some 42 percent oppose the plants being shut down.The support rate for Cabinet rose 2.5 percentage…READ FULL ARTICLE