By Xinhua,
Tokyo : The approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda’s Cabinet rose sharply to 31.5 percent following the Cabinet reshuffle, an opinion poll conducted by Kyodo News on Friday and Saturday showed.
In the major Japanese news organization’s last such poll in July, the rate was 26.8 percent.
Japanese media said the rise in support rate showed the public’s recognition of the new lineup as well as Fukuda’s decision to make a change.
Fukuda reshuffled on Friday the Cabinet he mostly inherited from his predecessor Shinzo Abe, retaining only 4 of the all 17 Cabinet members. The abrupt and broad change was widely seen as aimed at saving the approval rating which has been lingering at dangerous levels for several months.