The Japan Times·Japan·Friday, September 18, 2026 at 01:45 AM

Ahead of reshuffle, approval rate for Takaichi Cabinet fell to 44.1%

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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends an extraordinary Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office on Thursday. | JIJI

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Sep 18, 2026

The public approval rate for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Cabinet dropped 4.3 percentage points from the previous month to 44.1% in September, hitting the lowest level since she took office last October, a Jiji Press survey showed Thursday.

The rate fell for four months in a row.

According to the survey, conducted for four days through Monday, the proportion of respondents who did not support the Cabinet came to 29.3%, up 2.4 points.

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