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Approval rating for Japan’s new Takaichi cabinet beats predecessors, Kyodo poll shows

By Thomson Reuters Oct 22, 2025 | 4:46 AM

TOKYO (Reuters) -The approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s cabinet stands at 64.4%, higher than the initial ratings of her predecessors Shigeru Ishiba and Fumio Kishida, a Kyodo news agency poll showed on Wednesday.

Ishiba’s initial approval rate was 50.7% while Kishida’s was 55.7%, Kyodo said.

(Reporting by Satoshi Sugiyama and Kiyoshi Takenaka)