President Emmanuel Macron's popularity rating has slumped by 10 percentage points this month, according to an Ifop poll on Sunday — the biggest decline for a new president since 1995. The poll, published in the Journal du Dimanche newspaper, said 54 percent of people in ...
The public approval rating for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet has taken a 9.1-point plunge since June and now stands at 35.8 percent, a weekend poll shows.
Manufacturers nationwide are wary of a possible U.S. border tax, with just over half expecting profits to take a hit if the United States slaps a 20 percent levy on imports, a poll showed on Monday. In response, they are thinking of cutting costs, increasing ...
Republican Donald Trump pulled ahead of Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton in Florida and Pennsylvania in a Quinnipiac Poll released on Wednesday that included responses after the FBI released its findings on Clinton's email use. Clinton lost ground on honesty and moral standards in the ...
A majority of the public opposes the prospect of the Abe administration amending the Constitution, the results of a nationwide telephone survey show. The results of the survey, conducted Friday and Saturday by Kyodo News, said about 56.5 percent of the respondents are against the ...
Support for legal abortion in the U.S. has edged up to its highest level in the past two years, with an Associated Press-GfK poll showing an apparent increase in support among Democrats and Republicans alike over the last year. Nearly 6 in 10 Americans — ...
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump had a new target on Sunday, calling fellow White House contender Ted Cruz a "a little bit of a maniac" as the U.S. senator surpassed him in an Iowa presidential poll. Cruz's dogged pursuit of conservative Iowa voters has paid ...
Americans broadly support providing federal funding for free women's health exams, screenings and contraception services, a Reuters/Ipsos poll has found, suggesting risks for Republicans criticizing Planned Parenthood as part of the 2016 campaigns. Support for federal funding of Planned Parenthood itself to provide those services ...
Nearly 70 percent of atomic bomb survivors in Japan are against amending the Constitution's war-renouncing Article 9, with many thinking that adhering to it will keep the country out of war, a Kyodo News survey has shown. Reflecting growing concerns among the survivors over the ...
The government is doing a terrible job explaining legislation that could send Japanese soldiers into harm’s way without Diet approval, a survey finds.
With only a week to go before Osaka voters decide the matter, 47.8 percent of residents oppose a plan to turn the city administration into a metropolitan government similar to Tokyo's and 39.5 percent support it.
Despite Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's focus on revitalizing regional economies, growth remains uneven across Japan — with the pace of recovery slow the past year in municipalities with smaller populations, a Kyodo News survey showed Wednesday. Nearly 80 percent of local leaders who responded to ...
