Press TV – March 12, 2010

Support for Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and his cabinet has plunged ahead of the House of Councillors (upper house) elections.

A poll published by Tokyo-based Jiji news agency on Friday showed that only about 31 percent of the Japanese support Hatoyama. The figure is down 5 percent from the previous poll. Some 48.5 percent of the respondents disapproved of Hatoyama’s performance. Asked about who they would vote for in the June elections, slightly more than 21 percent said they would vote for Hatoyama’s Democratic Party of Japan.

The Democrats won a landslide victory in the House of Representatives (lower house) elections in August. They now need a majority in the upper house to avoid policy deadlock.

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