{"id":12469,"date":"2023-04-17T00:08:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T00:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/support-for-japan-pm\/"},"modified":"2023-04-17T00:09:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T00:09:27","slug":"support-for-japan-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/support-for-japan-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Support for Japan PM Kishida jumps, but policies still a hard sell &#8211; survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (Reuters) &#8211;     Support for the government of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida jumped in a survey taken at the weekend, but voters remained dubious about its proposals, including new childcare plans aimed at reversing the declining birthrate. <\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Kishida was evacuated unhurt after a suspect threw what appeared to be a smoke bomb at an outdoor speech in western Japan, an incident echoing the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at an election campaign even in July.<\/p>\n<p>A survey conducted by ANN television on Saturday and Sunday found 45.3% of respondents supported Kishida&#8217;s government, up 10.2 points from the previous month. <\/p>\n<p>But roughly 80% did not think the government&#8217;s childcare plans would do much to solve the low birthrate problem and some 60% disagreed with funding those plans by increasing the burden on taxpayers. <\/p>\n<p>A leading ruling party lawmaker told Reuters on April 13 that Japan should spend around 5 trillion yen on the new plan, noting that extra debt issuance won&#8217;t be ruled out. <\/p>\n<p>Though Kishida struggled with sliding support late in 2022, more recent polls have showed a slight uptick in his ratings. A survey by the Mainichi daily also conducted at the weekend found support for Kishida at 36%, up from 33% in March. <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Elaine Lies)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/support-for-japan-pm\/file-photo-japanese-prime-minister-fumio-kishida-speaks-at-a\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3G004-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3G004-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (Reuters) &#8211; Support for the government of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida jumped in a survey taken at the weekend, but voters remained dubious about its proposals, including new childcare plans aimed at reversing the declining birthrate. On Saturday, Kishida was evacuated unhurt after a suspect threw what appeared to be a smoke bomb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3G004-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12471,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12469\/revisions\/12471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}