Only 10.4% want PM Kishida to continue to serve: poll

Only 10.4 percent of the Japanese public want Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to win the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership race slated for September and continue serving as premier, the latest Kyodo News poll showed Sunday.

Yet the LDP abides.

Abe, Suga, Kishida with identical policies, visions and urges.

Hello to the next suit.

One party so-called neo-lib democracy for you

While I can't say anything positive about Kishida, I feel that whoever comes next will be either just as bad, or worse! Who are your choices? Young inexperienced Koizumi, or Aso Taro, again. Kono Taro, who has dropped the ball countless times, or the right wing hawk Sanae Takaichi. Nothing will change, never.

As always, the question is, "What's the alternative?"

Will someone with the drive and vision to lead Japan please step up!

Only 10.4% want PM Kishida to continue to serve: poll

Then how does the j nation progress, another parachuted in figurehead Prime Minster, from a ruling government, that the people are never truly able to hold the factionalism accountable.

A hidden, faceless cabal of old men working the puppetry of a Japan diet?

Inflation isn't his fault but he'll be associated with it. He's no worse than most and better than some.

It seems Kishida better resign prime minister or dissolve the lower house soon. He is a lame duck prime minister.

What?!!! He has the Midas touch.

Only 10.4% want PM Kishida to continue to serve: poll

That 10% need to be in the nearest loony bin, tout de suite.

With 10.4% why still in power then?

The system needs a complete reform.

To define any Japanese PM as a leader is a misuse of the word.

There are plenty of avenues for direct democracy in the present day to bypass the old feudal system which unfortunately dominates in the 21st century.

Small survey.

Japan routinely changes leaders.

Fixed terms maybe. Although I acknowledge the party chooses the leader , maybe a US style Presidential election , would inject some stability.

Out with the old, in with the old...

Only 10.4% want PM Kishida to continue to serve: poll

Doesn't really matter. Japan is a one party dictatorship by the LDP. And whether its Kishida or someone else from the LDP I don't see any difference. From what I'm hearing, we may be down to 200 yen to the dollar come December. Its not going to make any difference who the PM is if he is from the LDP

Is, or was Fumio Kishida ever really Japan's Prime Minster to the extent of such a leadership role?

This is concerning, as these are the sort of circumstances that may allow a populist to wade in out of nowhere, promise the Earth, deliver nothing, break everything and start a war.

There are plenty worse than Kishida, so be careful what you wish for.

I wish voters would realize that it's not just the person in charge, but also all those that are around them. If you want change, you can't keep voting in the old guard.

Not surprised at all. Its not difficult to see this guy can not be trusted.

What 10.4%?

Are those people complete morons?

Or did they just not hear/listen to the question?

> Some parts of Ishikawa Prefecture that were affected by the Noto Peninsula earthquake on New Year's Day were excluded from the survey.

surprise surprise. It would’ve been ZERO percent had they called that area.

Kishida knows no shame (or an overseas junket that he cannot resist).

Remember that succession of do-nothing Prime Ministers from the mid-2000s until about 2012? I miss those guys. No inflation; if your salary went up you kept the full value; the cost of living was reasonable; real estate was reasonable. Consumption tax was lower. The PMs just stayed out of the way and let people do their jobs and live their lives and slowly get ahead.

Is he really doing such a terrible job? This has been the pattern for public opinions on PM's since Koizumi; they hold office a few years, then people want to get rid of them.

Perhaps there's still some 'ancestral trauma' as they say, holding on from a few centuries ago when the citizenry was stuck under the boot of a Daimyo who claimed power for life, and more recently the authoritarians who dragged the country into the Second World War.

It may be that the ability to collectively show a leader the door with no violence is still a bit of a novelty, however subconscious it may be.

Is he really doing such a terrible job? This has been the pattern for public opinions on PM's since Koizumi; they hold office a few years, then people want to get rid of them.

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If you are in Japan then you know the answer…

These polls are never very insightful because they force respondents to compare the current leader next to the theoretical “perfect” leader who they have yet to identify. Among the 89.6% of people who didn’t want Kishida to continue, is there a consensus for who should be running the country? If not, then this is not a very helpful data point. I’m not saying I love Kishida, but the nameless “somebody else” isn’t a real choice.

This should be a signal for them to sort out the political funding rules.

The rules as they stand have gray areas about payments that should be banned as corruption but go after other politicians for silly stuff like giving left over bouquets of flowers or food to supporters at election time.

Is he really doing such a terrible job? This has been the pattern for public opinions on PM's since Koizumi; they hold office a few years, then people want to get rid of them.

Kishida also took over a week to go to Noto after the earthquake and that's a black mark from me. Some complaints aimed at Kishida, about MyNumber quibbles or the birthrate falling further, would have happened under anyone. In a perfect world, Kishida would come out and speak positively about tourism, thank everyone is coming, and say that "overtourism" is essentially media-pushed overhyped BS that affects only a tiny percentage of Japanese, but he would be working with local authorities to solve the specific issues.

Only 10.4 percent of the Japanese public want Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to win the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership race slated for September and continue serving as premier,

OK. But who do the remaining 89.6% think would do a better job?

Small survey.

Japan routinely changes leaders.

Fixed terms maybe. Although I acknowledge the party chooses the leader , maybe a US style Presidential election , would inject some stability.

The last thing Japan needs is a US style Presidential system that locks leaders in so that they basically cannot be removed, no matter how inept they may be.

Parliamentary democracy is a better system.

Motegi is charming at the bit. Another political blue blood and not a pleasant person either; very arrogant. Or Ishiba.

Wouldn’t mind Kono Taro because he thinks outside the box and at least makes some decent use of social media, showing he’s not hopelessly out of touch. But the powers that me are afraid he might really change things, so he’s unlikely to get the ch as nice until he’s at least 70 and has had his youthful passions pounded out of him.

Political reforms for elections needed.

Japan is stuck in the XXth century.

Kishida was just another standard high civil servant to be selected and many are queuing in the line.

Japanese still at fault for voting for the same party over and over.

I am not a fan of Kishida, but he has still seemed less bad and slightly more sensible than some of the previous ones.

LDP stays forever and ever...

Kishida is very much like Gorbachev in late 1980s who has been running around and exposing his ambitious and talking his big dream but he achieved nothing. He is just not fit for the job and he can't get public support. Abe is dead, without his political protection nobody listen to Kishida anymore!

Yet the LDP abides.Abe, Suga, Kishida with identical policies, visions and urges. Hello to the next suit. One party so-called neo-lib democracy for you.

Yet mass media tells us this is the leading democracy in Asia and a shining example for others to follow.

Yet mass media tells us this is the leading democracy in Asia and a shining example for others to follow.

This is the propaganda from America, they like everyone being her vassals !

Ramsey's KitchenToday 11:18 am JST

Yet mass media tells us this is the leading democracy in Asia

No, mass media tells us that's Taiwan.

It has better press freedom (Taiwan 27th; Japan 70th) and internet freedom (Taiwan 78 points; Japan 77 points), and a more inclusive social sphere, just for starters.

https://rsf.org/en/index

https://www.statista.com/statistics/272533/degree-of-internet-freedom-in-selected-countries/

elephant200Today 11:41 am JST

This is the propaganda from America

Per the above, no it isn't.

Of those 10.4%, half of them receive direct financial benefits and/or kickbacks from the LDP. The other half have simply lost their minds.

Yet mass media tells us this is the leading democracy in Asia

No, mass media tells us that's Taiwan.

The foreign media perhaps, not the Japanese media here.

trust me, going out from Tokyo and ask the people in the rural towns, they dont even know who is Kishida. This kind of polls serve no meaning, it only represent opinions in urban areas

If the PM were replaced by an AI mannequin, would anyone be the wiser?

Yes the mannequin would probably be wiser

GuruMick

...maybe a US style Presidential election , would inject some stability.

As long as it was a direct national vote tally, and not some screwed-up electoral college type system with the less populated prefectures given disproportionate leverage.

""Only 10.4 percent of the Japanese public want Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to win the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership""

How SAAAAAD.

In a democracy where majority leads, this 10.4% means total Dissatisfaction, Disgusted, and about to revolt.

By political party, support for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party headed by Kishida came in at 26.5 percent, up 1.8 points from the previous survey.

This is the real problem.