50% want Japan ruling bloc to lose upper house majority: Kyodo poll

Half of Japanese voters want Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's ruling coalition to lose its majority in the House of Councillors in next month's election, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday.The nationwide telephone poll conducted Saturday and Sunday found that 50.2 percent of respondents want the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito party to lose their upper house majority, while 38.1 percent want them to retain control following the July 20 election.The ruling coalition lost its majority in the lower house in the general election in October.The LDP is still the most popular party among vo…READ FULL ARTICLE