50.1% of Japanese give high marks to Ishiba-Trump summit: Kyodo poll

A Kyodo News survey showed Sunday that 50.1 percent of respondents gave high marks to the first in-person summit between Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington earlier this month.The approval rating for Ishiba's Cabinet rose to 39.6 percent from 35.7 percent in January, while 81.3 percent viewed the government's recent decision to release stockpiled rice to curb price hikes as "overdue," the weekend telephone poll found.On Feb. 7, Ishiba held talks with Trump for the first time since he returned to the White House on Jan. 20, with them pledging …READ FULL ARTICLE