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G-8 summit fails to spur support for Fukuda Cabinet, at 26.8%+
TOKYO, July 12 Kyodo - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's chairing of the Group of Eight summit failed to substantially spur the sagging public support rate for his Cabinet, which rose to 26.8 percent in the latest Kyodo News poll released Saturday, compared with 25.0 percent last month.
Asked about their view of Fukuda's leadership as chairman at the Group of Eight summit meeting held from Monday to Wednesday in Hokkaido, 51.4 percent said they do not evaluate it highly, compared with 30.3 percent who said they do.
The nationwide telephone poll conducted Friday and Saturday, carried out following the G-8 summit in Hokkaido, northern Japan, showed the disapproval rate for the Fukuda Cabinet at 53.5 percent, down 6.7 percentage points from the previous survey in June.
The outcome shows Fukuda failed to lift his popularity through his performance as chairman at the G-8 summit as a majority of poll respondents expressed reservations about his leadership role, political analysts said.
The survey also presents declining popularity for his Liberal Democratic Party.
Asked about their view of a favorable political framework for government, 45.3 percent expressed support for one led by the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, up 4.9 points from the previous survey.
The ratio of those saying they back a framework centering on the LDP stood at 31.2 percent, down 3.9 points.
The support rate for a DPJ framework surpassed that for an LDP framework for the fourth consecutive poll, with the margin widening to 14.1 points from 5.3 points.
By political party, the support rate for the LDP came to 28.6 percent, down 0.5 point, with that for the DPJ also at 28.6 percent, up 5.0 points.
In the survey, Kyodo News called telephone numbers randomly selected by computer. From the 1,471 households nationwide containing eligible voters among those called, 1,031 people responded to the poll.
Asked if the G-8 summit meeting advanced measures to curb global warming, 56.2 percent said they do not think so, while 37.2 percent said the summit among Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States contributed to promote anti-global warming steps.
Regarding the government's plan to lift part of its economic sanctions on North Korea, 61.9 percent expressed opposition, with just 24.2 percent in favor.
In talks with Japan last month, North Korea pledged to reinvestigate the abductions of Japanese citizens by North Korean agents in the 1970s and 1980s, and expressed readiness to cooperate in handing over Japanese radicals who hijacked a plane to the nation in 1970.
In response to such moves, the Japanese government said it will ease some of the sanctions it has imposed on Pyongyang.
On a proposal to raise the 5 percent consumption tax rate to cope with rising social welfare costs, 61.8 percent expressed opposition and 33.8 percent voiced support.
Asked about their view of Fukuda's leadership as chairman at the Group of Eight summit meeting held from Monday to Wednesday in Hokkaido, 51.4 percent said they do not evaluate it highly, compared with 30.3 percent who said they do.
The nationwide telephone poll conducted Friday and Saturday, carried out following the G-8 summit in Hokkaido, northern Japan, showed the disapproval rate for the Fukuda Cabinet at 53.5 percent, down 6.7 percentage points from the previous survey in June.
The outcome shows Fukuda failed to lift his popularity through his performance as chairman at the G-8 summit as a majority of poll respondents expressed reservations about his leadership role, political analysts said.
The survey also presents declining popularity for his Liberal Democratic Party.
Asked about their view of a favorable political framework for government, 45.3 percent expressed support for one led by the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, up 4.9 points from the previous survey.
The ratio of those saying they back a framework centering on the LDP stood at 31.2 percent, down 3.9 points.
The support rate for a DPJ framework surpassed that for an LDP framework for the fourth consecutive poll, with the margin widening to 14.1 points from 5.3 points.
By political party, the support rate for the LDP came to 28.6 percent, down 0.5 point, with that for the DPJ also at 28.6 percent, up 5.0 points.
In the survey, Kyodo News called telephone numbers randomly selected by computer. From the 1,471 households nationwide containing eligible voters among those called, 1,031 people responded to the poll.
Asked if the G-8 summit meeting advanced measures to curb global warming, 56.2 percent said they do not think so, while 37.2 percent said the summit among Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States contributed to promote anti-global warming steps.
Regarding the government's plan to lift part of its economic sanctions on North Korea, 61.9 percent expressed opposition, with just 24.2 percent in favor.
In talks with Japan last month, North Korea pledged to reinvestigate the abductions of Japanese citizens by North Korean agents in the 1970s and 1980s, and expressed readiness to cooperate in handing over Japanese radicals who hijacked a plane to the nation in 1970.
In response to such moves, the Japanese government said it will ease some of the sanctions it has imposed on Pyongyang.
On a proposal to raise the 5 percent consumption tax rate to cope with rising social welfare costs, 61.8 percent expressed opposition and 33.8 percent voiced support.
