Support rate for Aso Cabinet hits new low

Support rate for Aso Cabinet hits new low

PRIGORODNOYE, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Taso Aso delivers a speech during a ceremony to start production of liquefied natural gas at a plant in Prigorodnoye, southern Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18. Public discontent with the already shaky Aso's Cabinet has grown after the resignation of his finance minister with the support rate for Aso's Cabinet down to 13.4 percent in a Kyodo News survey.

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