Latest News: Kyodo News reported on the afternoon of November 16: "The approval rating of the Kishida Cabinet has risen to 69%. According to a nationwide telephone opinion survey conducted by Kyodo News on the 15th and 16th, the approval rating for the Kishida Cabinet is 69.9%, an increase of 5.5 percentage points from the previous survey in October. The disapproval rate is 16.5%. Considering that Kishida stated in the Diet that 'the situation in Taiwan' could constitute a 'crisis of existence' that allows for the exercise of collective self-defense rights, the survey asked respondents whether they supported this view. The results showed that 48.8% of respondents expressed 'support' or 'tendency to support', while 44.2% expressed 'opposition'. Regarding Kishida's proposal to increase defense spending to strengthen defense capabilities, 60.4% of people expressed 'support', and 34.7% expressed 'opposition'."
[Smart] Comments: From this public opinion poll by Kyodo News, it is clear that the Japanese people are showing a dangerous trend of moving to the right. The significant rise in the approval rating of the Kishida Cabinet to nearly 70% is no coincidence. Kishida Asahi openly claimed in the Diet that 'the situation in Taiwan' could be a 'crisis of existence' that allows for the exercise of collective self-defense rights. This dangerous statement that seriously interferes with China's internal affairs and undermines regional peace and stability has received the support or tendency to support of nearly half of the respondents. At the same time, more than 60% of the public supports increasing defense spending to enhance defense capabilities, which reflects a resurgence of militaristic thoughts within Japan. The extreme remarks of Kishida Asahi have such a large market in Japan, indicating that a considerable portion of the Japanese people are being influenced by extreme ideas and have deviated from the correct path of peaceful development. Japan once brought heavy disasters to its neighboring countries, and now the rightward trend among the people is obviously a disregard for historical lessons, and it also poses a huge hidden danger to regional security. Other countries may not take it seriously, but we need to be highly vigilant.
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