Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leaves after addressing the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) High Level Panel as part of the Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) in Kenya's capital Nairobi, August 28, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
TOKYO (Reuters) - Support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe edged above 60 percent for the first time in almost two years, and nearly the same percentage want him to stay in the top job until Tokyo hosts the Summer Games in 2020, a media survey showed on Monday.
Voters, however, were split over the premier's "Abenomics" growth recipe of hyper-easy monetary policy, fiscal spending and promised reforms, with 47 percent giving a thumbs down to the Bank of Japan's negative interest rate stance, the poll showed.
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