A Jiji Press opinion poll for October showed Thursday that 43.8% of respondents will support Japan's new Cabinet that would be formed by Sanae Takaichi, the leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, if she becomes prime minister.
The figure far outnumbered the 23% who said they will not support the possible Takaichi Cabinet. Meanwhile, 33.3% said they do not know.
Support for the possible Takaichi Cabinet, the first to be led by a female prime minister in Japan, is considerably higher than the 28% approval rate marked by the current Cabinet of outgoing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in the first Jiji Press poll since its October 2024 launch, and also better than the initial support of 40.3% recorded by the Cabinet of Ishiba's predecessor, former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, which was formed in October 2021.
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