(Bloomberg) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe saw his cabinet’s approval rating jump 9 percentage points to 36% in a poll conducted by the Mainichi newspaper on June 20. The cabinet’s disapproval rating fell 9 percentage points to 56%.
Some 59% of respondents said Abe’s ties to former Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai and his wife Anri, who were arrested on vote-buying allegations last week, were a “serious” issue. About a third of respondents said Abe’s ties weren’t a major concern.
Meanwhile, about a quarter of respondents said they approve of the government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak, while slightly more than half said they disapprove.
