An emergency nationwide public opinion poll conducted by the Yomiuri Shimbun on the 21st and 22nd revealed that support for the Takaichi Cabinet has risen sharply among younger generations compared to the Ishiba Cabinet.
By age group, 80% of respondents aged 18–39 said they “support” the Takaichi Cabinet, a dramatic increase from 15% in the previous September survey. Support also rose among those aged 40–59 to 75% (previously 29%) and among those aged 60 and older to 63% (previously 50%). While the Ishiba Cabinet tended to draw stronger support from older voters, the Takaichi Cabinet is instead being led by enthusiastic backing from younger people—a pattern reminiscent of the second Abe Cabinet.
By gender, 71% of men and 72% of women expressed support, compared with 30% and 37% respectively in the previous survey, showing near parity between the sexes.
Regionally, overall support hovered around 70% nationwide. The Kinki region ranked second at 76%, following Chubu at 81%, marking a sharp rise from 29% previously. Analysts suggest this may reflect Prime Minister Takaichi’s roots in Nara Prefecture and the new coalition with the Japan Innovation Party, led by Osaka Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura. Under Ishiba, support in the Kinki area had been relatively weak, indicating a clear coalition effect.
When respondents were asked to select a single reason for supporting the Takaichi Cabinet from six options, the most common answer was “I have expectations for its policies” (41%), followed by “There is no better alternative” (20%), “The prime minister shows leadership” (15%), “The prime minister is trustworthy” (12%), “The cabinet lineup is good” (4%), and “Because it is a government led by the LDP” (5%).
Among those who do not support the Cabinet, the top reason was “Because it is a government led by the LDP” (28%), followed by “I have no expectations for its policies” (19%), “The prime minister is not trustworthy” (18%), “There is someone better” (11%), “The cabinet lineup is poor” (10%), and “The prime minister lacks leadership” (3%).
by liatris4405
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Far right shift for zoomers is happening globally.
Glad to see young Japanese people support more overtime work, less quality of life and higher cost of living with plummeting salaries.
To the foreigners who reside in Japan and wonder why the country is like that, the answer is there: it’s by choice.
Let’s continue the bad policies that put us in the current bad situation 🎇
Morons
She’s only been PM for three days. Those goodwill polls are meaningless. Her poll numbers will plummet the same as those of her predecessors because no matter who the LDP PM is nothing changes because the LDP is the source of Japan’s problem.
We’ll see where the polls are in 6 months.
It’s just hope for new leadership. I’d be surprised if she isn’t down to a similarly low approval rating by the time she’s out. And if recent trends tell us anything, she’ll probably be out in a year or two.
I actually heard that these results aren’t reliable. Apparently Sankei shinbun did a similar poll and found different results. Maybe yomiuri is pretty right wing so their poll responders are already conservative?
Let’s do one in one month and it’s going to go down a lot.
Those are Roosevelt/Kennedy levels of support wow. Incidentally 72% of Japanese (80% when removing undecideds) also support same sex marriage according to the latest Asahi polls so there’s a lot of overlap. Very interesting for sure.
I think people vote for someone for a great number of reasons and most of the time they have to accept their choice is not perfect, but aligns in some way to their worldview. It isnt always about immigration you know. Although that is what Reddit latches on to because it is a hot topic.
I give her half a year before she drops below 50%. In one year likely 20-low 30s. Don’t think she’ll do more than 2 years max.
None of her policies will address the systemic issues causing inflation, her monetary policies expressed previously are problematic by limiting BOJ rate hikes… too interventionist… too short term, thinking she can buy popularity…, we might see temporary real income increases due to laxer taxes, but inflation will eat this over the medium term. And Japan’s GDP to debt ratio will absolutely explode, plus say goodbye to a strong yen. We might drift towards 170 v the dollar. No kidding.
Will be eagerly watching what they end up introducing in the next diet session. She’s socially conservative and fiscally illiterate. Fucking A.
Good news is the NKY is loving it.
I guess the yen carry trade is back on the menu, boys. Buckle up. Printers about to work overtime because Takaichi has no fucking plan to stimulate wage growth and implement structural reforms to combat the demographic decline. Instead, it’ll be aggressively anti foreigner (except for the absurdly rich ones, hello 👋 China 🇨🇳!) to get sanseito voters on board, and once again, zero leadership in Asia. What a shame. Japan has the golden opportunity of a lifetime to establish itself as the de facto leader of an Asian union of countries to act as a bulwark against China. But just like the three clowns before her, she will kiss the American ring and sell this country out of pennies on the dollar.
She’s an unhinged, bat-shit crazy lady. 6 months.
It will not last.
Deeply unserious country
wonder how much of that support is non-politically motivated (things like “she’s the first woman pm” or “she was on the babymetal podcast and can play drums”.)
A good friend of mine(25 ish) supports her, sites foreigners being a problem, voted sanseito etc, and believes that japan is way too far left and liberal. This was crazy to me since Japan has had a conservative government for years, but apparently they are a left wing party lmao. When pushed he didnt really know what either of those words meant. I would consider him one of my more politically aware Japanese friends.
Honestly i think most japanese young people are politically and media illiterate and vote on vibes and what they hear to be problems. But then again thats just how it goes everywhere, sad times.
I’ve been in Japan for maybe 3 weeks now and every outlet I’ve encountered is constantly discussing Takaichi’s LDP and always with positive spin applied to her and her policies and new cabinet.
Ok….so people should get a grip, it’s not that 70 percent of young people are Nazis and subscribing to Project 2025 Japan edition. They want to see a Japanese economy that’s not struggling, where people can afford rent. I think that is fair. Since the 90s there’s been a sinking feeling of working poor, like working but not a lot to show for it and slowly affording less and less. She is a coherent talker and not another super old rich man, so that has given a bit of optimism even though she is very Showa era values.
I find whatever TF Trump is doing and people’s acceptance of it way more concerning.
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