The support rating for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stands at 49.4 percent, up 1.1 points from the previous survey carried out in November, an opinion poll said Sunday.
The Cabinet's disapproval rating meanwhile stood at 38.2 percent, down 2.2 points.
In the Kyodo News telephone survey conducted Saturday and Sunday across Japan, 73.7 percent said they do not feel economic conditions have improved since the launch of Abe's government three years ago, while 23.6 percent said the economy has improved due to his "Abenomics" policy of radical monetary easing, fiscal spending and vows of structural reform.