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Support at lowest ebb for Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Japan PM Abe’s support lowest since 2012, China Daily, 16 June 15  By Reuters TOKYO – Support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet has fallen to the lowest level since he took office in 2012, to just over 40 percent, with nearly two-thirds of voters opposed to his muscular defence policy that would end a self-imposed ban on the military fighting overseas, a weekend media survey showed.

The survey by Nippon Television Network coincided with weekend rallies by thousands protesting the legislation, which would allow Japan to exercise its right of collective self-defence, or militarily aiding a friendly country under attack.

Abe’s Cabinet adopted a resolution last July reinterpreting the pacifist constitution to allow the dramatic shift in security policy. In April, Abe told the US Congress that the changes, already reflected in new US-Japan defence cooperation guidelines, would be enacted this summer……

Thousands of Japanese rallied on the weekend to protest the security bills and other government policies such as plans to restart nuclear reactors taken off-line after the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster…….http://www.chinadailyasia.com/asia/2015-06/15/content_15277058.html

June 17, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general