Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo, Japan March 14, 2018. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government faced criticism on Thursday, after his defence minister said the army last year found activity logs from a controversial 2004 to 2006 deployment to Iraq, but had failed to report them to his predecessor.
The affair comes amid signs that declines in support for Abe might be bottoming out, with ratings of around 42 percent in two recent polls, after a suspected cronyism scandal and cover-up over the discounted sale of state-owed land.
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