Public support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet has risen 1.9 points to 38.9 percent from the previous month even as cronyism allegations linger over the Kake Gakuen veterinary school project linked to his close friend, a poll showed Sunday.
The weekend poll by Kyodo News found 75.5 percent were dissatisfied with the Diet testimony given by Abe's former aide Tadao Yanase on Thursday, when he admitted meeting officials from the school operator, run by Abe's friend Kotaro Kake, but denied doing so at Abe's direction.
Abe has been struggling to dispel allegations of cronyism, including over whether he aided Kake's campaign to win government approval in 2017 to open Japan's first university veterinary department in half a century.