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The approval rating for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stood at 55.9 percent, down 4.1 points from the previous survey in December, a Kyodo News survey shows, as Japan grapples with recent surges in COVID-19 infections driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant.
Japan’s economic security was on the top of the list of newly elected premier Fumio Kishida’s political agenda, as he vowed to safeguard the country’s secrets