TOKYO: Support for Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government offers tumbled, battered by questions about the judgment party’s ties towards the Unification Church and its particular response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a public opinion election.
Links to the church, started in South Korea in the 1950s and known for its mass wedding ceremonies, have become a headache for Kishida considering that Jul 8, when former premier Shinzo Abe was shot and his suspected monster said his mom was bankrupted with the church and held responsible Abe for marketing it.
Based on a survey carried out at the weekend by the Mainichi Shimbun daily, Kishida’s support fell to 36 % from 52 percent a month ago, the lowest since he had taken office last October.
Those who considered ties between the Unification Church and Kishida’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) were either “an severe problem” or “something of a problem” hit 87 per cent. Just 4 per cent believed it was not a problem at all.