Support for Japanese cabinet slips to 28% - media poll

FILE PHOTO: Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his cabinet ministers are led by a shinto priests during a customary New Year's visit at Ise shrine in Ise, central Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo January 4, 2023. Mandatory credit Kyodo via REUTERS/File Photo

TOKYO (Reuters) - Public support of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's cabinet has fallen nearly 20 percentage points to 28% over the past two months, the Mainichi Shimbun reported on Sunday, citing a poll it conducted.

Kishida, who took office in October 2021, saw his approval plummeting in some polls late last year, battered by revelations of ties between the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the Unification Church, but numbers began to edge up with a thaw in ties with South Korea and a trip to Ukraine in March.