After having enjoyed high approval ratings for nearly his entire first year in office, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe may have finally undercut his government’s support when he pushed a controversial state secrets law through the Japanese Diet over the objections of opposition parties and thousands of demonstrators. His approval ratings fell more than 10 points to below 50 per cent in multiple opinion polls, largely on the basis of public unease about the powers over public information that the law grants to the state.
日本首相安倍晉三(Shinzo Abe)上臺近一年來獲得了較高的支持率,但他無視反對黨和數以千計的抗議者的反對,強行推動國會通過有爭議的國家保密法,這種做法可能最終會削弱其政府的支持率。從多項民調的結果來看,安倍晉三的支持率下降十多個百分點至50%以下,很大程度上歸因於公衆對該法賦予政府在公共資訊方面的權力感到不安。