Some 54.8 percent of the public is opposed to revising the war-renouncing Constitution under Prime Minister Shinizo Abe, up 6.2 points from the previous survey taken in December, Kyodo News reported Sunday.

According to the survey, conducted by Kyodo for two days through Sunday, 33 percent of the respondents said they backed constitutional revision, Abe's main political goal.

As for Abe's proposal to legitimize the Self-Defense Forces in the supreme code's Article 9, 52.7 percent of the people said they were opposed and 35.3 percent said they were supportive. In the November survey, 52.6 percent were opposed and 38.3 percent were supportive. This question was not asked in the December survey.