On November 7, during a parliamentary inquiry, Takahashi Asami implied that Japan might use military force to intervene in the Taiwan Strait, and her remarks about "an incident in Taiwan" caused a sharp escalation in Sino-Japanese tensions. The acting head of the policy research department of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Tanmura Norihisa, said on Sunday that Takahashi "acknowledged she did not sufficiently explain the background, and there should be no such statements in the future." On the same day, Honda Tomoyuki, the head of the policy research department of the Constitutional Democratic Party, which also includes former Prime Minister Hashimoto Yoshihiko, criticized Takahashi for not fully understanding Japan's national security laws and not fully recognizing China's position on Taiwan.
However, according to a nationwide telephone survey conducted by the "Asahi Shimbun" on November 15-16, Takahashi's cabinet support rate remained among the highest in history, reaching 69% (68% in the survey immediately after the cabinet took office in October); the percentage of people who do not support her dropped from 19% to 17%. Usually, the support rate of the prime minister tends to decline in the second survey conducted immediately after the cabinet takes office, which is attributed to factors such as the end of the "red envelope market." In terms of the prime minister's response to rising prices, the public's approval rate of the measures taken by Prime Ministers Kishida Fumio and Ishiba Shigeru was often in single digits, becoming an obstacle to the government's revitalization. However, this time, Takahashi's approval rate reached as high as 44%, close to half, with only 35% disapproval.
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