Japan PM Kishida's Cabinet support rate edges up to 24.2%: Kyodo poll

The approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet has edged up by 0.4 percentage point to 24.2 percent, a Kyodo News survey showed Monday, with a political funds scandal still shaking his Liberal Democratic Party.The telephone poll conducted for three days from Saturday also showed 79.7 percent of respondents disapprove of the ruling bloc's proposals to amend the political funds control law, which the LDP and its junior coalition partner, Komeito party, agreed on last week.After the political funds scandal was revealed late last year, the support rate for Kishida's Cab…READ FULL ARTICLE