Poll shows nearly 65% disapprove of tax hikes to cover Japan's increased defense budget - The Japan Times

The Japanese nationalist has upped the unit connected Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's administration, with a Kyodo News canvass uncovering Sunday that 64.9% of respondents disapprove of a precocious announced program to rise taxes to concern a important summation successful the nation's defence spending.

The enactment complaint for his Cabinet, meanwhile, remained astatine 33.1% from past month's survey, the lowest since its motorboat past year. The disapproval standing was astir unchanged astatine 51.5%.

On Friday, Kishida announced Japan's caller information strategy to forge up with its biggest defence buildup programme since World War II amid China's emergence and North Korea's atomic threats.