Learning from the insufficient response to the coronavirus crisis by the cabinets of former prime ministers Shinzo Abe and Yoshihide Suga, the government is aiming to make a preemptive strike against the new omicron variant by banning all nonresident foreigners from entering Japan in principle.
Just 10 days into the job, untested new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida wasted no time calling a snap Lower House election, giving voters precious little time to begin to assess his political performance and the party s mandate to govern.
The approval rating for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was 45 percent, the lowest for a new administration since 2001, when The Asahi Shimbun began its current method of surveying voters.
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