APPROVAL RATING OF JAPANESE PM SUGA’S CABINET SLIPS TO LOWEST

Mon 16 August 2021:

According to local media, the support rate for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s cabinet has dropped to a historic low of 31.8 percent, down 4.1 points from a month earlier, and 65.1 percent of respondents do not want Suga to stay in office.

The disapproval rating increased by 0.8 points to 50.6 percent, the highest level on record since the launch of the Suga cabinet last September.

According to the nationwide telephone survey conducted from Friday to Monday, 64.7 percent of respondents want the Tokyo Paralympics, which will open next Tuesday, to be held without spectators.

The Tokyo Olympics, which ended Aug. 8, were held with most venues near Tokyo free from spectators due to the pandemic.

Regarding the decision of the Japanese government and organizers to hold Olympic events amid the COVID-19 pandemic, 62.9 percent of the respondents expressed some degree of satisfaction about the Olympics, while 30.8 percent were dissatisfied.

As an increasing number of patients in need of medical attention pressures hospitals, 79.9 percent expressed their concerns over the government’s policy for treating COVID-19 patients.

The COVID-19 treating policy, which Suga decided earlier this month, required hospitals in areas facing a virus resurgence only admit patients with severe cases, or at risk of developing severe symptoms.

Suga later clarified that patients with moderate symptoms but at risk of developing severe symptoms will be admitted to hospitals.

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