The support rating for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has climbed 7 points since last month to 55.3 percent, according to a Kyodo News survey released Sunday.
The disapproval rating for the Cabinet stood at 33 percent, compared with 40.3 percent last month. The nationwide telephone survey conducted Saturday and Sunday covered 1,471 randomly selected households containing eligible voters nationwide, with valid responses collected from 1,026 people.
The survey also said an overwhelming 98 percent of respondents viewed U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Hiroshima on Friday positively. Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the city since it was destroyed by the 1945 atomic bombing.