Cabinet support rating plunges below 40% amid Abe cronyism scandal

The approval rating for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet has plunged below 40 percent and fallen behind the disapproval rate, amid a deepening scandal linked to cronyism allegations leveled against Abe over a state-owned land sale, a Kyodo News poll showed Sunday.The support rate stood at 38.7 percent, down 9.4 percentage points from the previous survey conducted before the Finance Ministry admitted to document tampering linked to the cronyism allegations.A total of 66.1 percent said Abe bears responsibility for the document alteration, while those who thought otherwise stood at 25.8 per…READ FULL ARTICLE