Abe Cabinet's support rate down amid scandal over cut-price land deal

Abe Cabinet's support rate down amid scandal over cut-price land deal

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) attends a graduation ceremony at a junior high school in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, in northeastern Japan, on March 12, 2017. The support rate for Abe's Cabinet dropped 6.0 percentage points from the previous month to 55.7 percent in a Kyodo News poll released the same day, reflecting widespread discontent with a scandal over the cut-price sale of public land to a school operator with ties to the premier's wife. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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