Support for Japan PM Shinzo Abe's Cabinet surpasses disapproval: Kyodo poll

The approval rating for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet stood at 44.9 percent, up for the second month, the latest Kyodo News poll showed Sunday.The rate compares with 38.9 percent in May and 37.0 percent in April, when public support for the Cabinet hit the second-lowest level in Kyodo polls since Abe returned to power in 2012.The disapproval rating declined to 43.2 percent from 50.3 percent in May and 52.6 percent in April.The latest telephone poll, conducted Saturday and Sunday across the nation, also showed most respondents were negative about the prospects for a complete denucleari…READ FULL ARTICLE