Support for new Kishida Cabinet rises 6 points to 39.8%: Kyodo poll

The approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet rose to 39.8 percent following a reshuffle, up 6.2 percentage points from late August, a Kyodo News survey showed Thursday, signaling the shakeup's limited impact on lifting its sagging popularity.According to the two-day nationwide telephone survey conducted from Wednesday, 37.6 percent of respondents said they viewed Kishida's picks of Cabinet ministers and ruling party leadership positively, against 43.9 percent who felt otherwise.Kishida on Wednesday appointed a record-tying five women as ministers, including the to…READ FULL ARTICLE